Virginia lawyers who serve in the General Assembly enjoy outsized powers and privileges in their interactions with the judges who rule on their cases. But any regulation would be impractical, many of them say. In Virginia, lawyer-legislators can have a ...

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Virginia legislators re-elected 46 incumbent trial court judges in the first round of judicial selection at this year’s General Assembly. One new circuit judge was among those elected Jan. 16. One sitting judge was left off the list without explanation. ...

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A Dickenson County Circuit Court grants plaintiffs a prescriptive easement on Tarzan Road, 15 feet in width, for commercial and residential purposes, based on plaintiffs’ evidence about their use of the road for ingress and egress. The court also enters ...

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Century-old deeds that reference “two sycamore trees” are inadequate to establish a boundary line between property owned by a lumber company and by a food store, but the Buchanan County Circuit Court says the food store has established its right ...

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A tip that came from a Facebook account attached to a particular name will be treated as an anonymous tip by the Dickenson County Court and because officers were able to verify information in the tip such as the time ...

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Although two defendants were acquitted of misdemeanor charges related to the alleged shooting of dogs who were killing turkeys, a Dickenson County Circuit Court rejects defendants’ argument that their related felony prosecution is barred by collateral estoppel; the court denies ...

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Plaintiff was the mother of an 8-year-old boy who was killed instantly by the operator of a Dodge Durango in a residential driveway on private property in broad daylight. After running over the child with both right tires, the operator ...

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