Some lawyers are encountering clouds of confusion about whether the state’s automatic license suspension for some first-offense marijuana offenders is still in effect. Virginia judges are said to be taking different approaches to whether the marijuana offenders must have their ...

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Advocates who helped remove barriers for offenders trying to keep driving privileges in Virginia are turning their sights to laws that require license suspensions for crimes that have nothing to do with driving. On Sept. 25, as it celebrated 10 ...

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A Republican legal challenge to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s politically charged blanket rights restoration for convicted felons could be decided on how the case reached the doors of the state Supreme Court. The justices conducted oral arguments in the voting ...

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An Augusta County circuit judge may have aided political foes of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe with a critical review of McAuliffe’s executive order restoring civil rights for more than 200,000 convicted felons. The judge rejected a criminal defendant’s request to ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia will return to Richmond for a rare mid-summer special session on July 19 to deal with two politically charged issues: legislative redistricting and felon enfranchisement. In the redistricting case, the court has been asked to ...

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Court-appointed mediators in many Virginia divorce cases in­volving children should see their pay double later this year. A measure approved by both the Gen­eral Assembly and the governor specifies that, for mediators appointed for both child custody or visitation matters ...

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Another driver has struck out with a challenge to high toll penalties on Northern Virginia highways. This time, a Fairfax County circuit judge ruled that $81,325 in penalties and costs for unpaid fees on the Dulles toll road was not ...

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A resolution to questions about the future of Virginia’s newest Supreme Court justice was nowhere in sight this past week with Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe locked in a stalemate with Republican legislators. McAuliffe on Aug. 26 affirmed his determination to ...

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Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush to the Supreme Court of Virginia Monday. She will succeed Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr., whose retirement is effective Friday, July 31. Roush has served on the Fairfax bench since ...

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A new state statute and revisions to an old one have personal injury lawyers hoping some difficult settlements might become easier. One provision of the new law was seen as a “sea change of immense proportions” by one attorney who ...

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