Lost in the flap about a white supremacist facing federal contempt charges was the substance of the opinion that brought the charges to the surface. Now available on the Western District Web site, Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski’s opinion explains ...

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A Pennington Gap dentist convicted of defrauding Medicaid is the beneficiary of a new interpretation of the federal money laundering statute. U.S. District Judge James P. Jones reads the recent Santos opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court as requiring a ...

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An in-house lawyer’s warning that he represented the company, not its employees or CEO, meant the CEO could not use the attorney-client privilege to keep the lawyer from testifying before a federal grand jury. In an unpublished decision June 11 ...

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Updating an April 30 blog entry, the Virginia Court of Appeals today granted rehearing en banc in Scialdone v. Commonwealth. In its April 29 split panel decision, the appellate court reversed summary contempt, including jail terms, for two Virginia Beach ...

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A judge erred in telling jurors that he could lower their sentencing recommendation but not increase it, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today. The judge’s comment came in response the question, “Can the [judge] alter the sentence[?]” Justice Barbara ...

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Bummer if you were looking for the Supreme Court of Virginia to really decide three closely watched cases: Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, which appeared to raise the issue of whether Virginia courts will defer to courts of another state on issues ...

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Virginia Beach circuit Judge Joseph Canada has set aside a jury’s guilty verdict in a case against a police officer accused of extorting money. According to WAVY, the judge did not think that the evidence was sufficient for conviction. Update: ...

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A federal affidavit accuses Woodbridge lawyer Stephen J. Conrad of bilking between 200 and 300 of his clients, pocketing at least $3.4 million in settlements, according to Inside Northern Virginia.

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Harrisonburg city treasurer Rebecca Neal is under indictment for alleged fraud. She faces a petition to have her removed from office. Just this week, an employee of her office sued her for alleged harassment. But apparently Neal is not hiding ...

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A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the illegality of a search under Virginia law does not require the suppression of evidence seized during the search. Writing for the court in Virginia v. Moore, Justice Antonin Scalia said in ...

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