The Court of Appeals affirms a trial court order that modified an existing no contact order restricting appellant grandmother’s access to her granddaughter after removal of the child from the grandmother’s custody for placement in foster care. Despite the no ...

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Although a welder suffered his workplace injury from tripping over his toolbox two weeks prior to his planned retirement, he is not eligible for wage loss benefits, but is entitled to medical benefits, the Court of Appeals says. Claimant filed ...

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A defendant cannot overturn his conviction of aggravated sexual battery on the ground that the trial court violated defendant’s Sixth Amendment right by allowing the child victim to write a portion of her testimony, rather than speaking it; in this ...

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A defendant who used a stolen Belk credit card to go to three different locations within a store and make three separate purchases over a period of about 40 minutes can be convicted of three counts of grand larceny under ...

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Although claimant, whose hand was crushed by a cinder block in a work-related injury, only completed Part A of his claim for workers’ compensation benefits and did not explicitly request lifetime medical benefits, the commission did not err in finding ...

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A police officer on the lookout for a black Mitsubishi could pull defendant’s car after the officer passed him on a two-lane highway and observed a tree-shaped air freshener hanging from defendant’s rear-view mirror, a possible violation of Virginia’s “obstruction ...

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The circuit court erred in dismissing competitor’s appeal of a hospital permitting decision for lack of standing, the Court of Appeals says; standing is determined from properly pled allegations and the case is remanded. Applicant applied to the State Health ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s bench trial conviction and five-year sentence for felon firearm possession:  a bank employee’s eyewitness report of defendant parked in a car armed with a shotgun near the bank provided reasonable suspicion to detain and ...

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A defendant cannot overturn revocation of his suspended sentence with a collateral attack on his underlying conviction under Va. Code § 18.2-361(A) for consensual sodomy with juveniles, and the Court of Appeals says the trial court did not err in ...

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A father’s retirement account will go to his two children, and not to his surviving spouse, because their right to the money vested when the father and mother divorced, the Virginia Court of Appeals said on Jan. 28. When Sandra ...

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