An assertion that defendant is a “life-long opiate addict” who knew his withdrawal symptoms during the 48 hours prior to his traffic accident would include confusion, distractability and “overall impairment of driving ability,” does not state a common law claim ...

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Alleging a driver knew he was impaired due to drug withdrawal is not enough to sue that driver for punitive damages for rear-ending a school bus, an Augusta County Circuit Court has ruled. The driver was driving on a license ...

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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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An Augusta County Circuit Court denies a petition filed by the county board of supervisors to hold a referendum pursuant to Va. Code § 15.2-1652 on moving the county courthouse from Staunton to the county government center complex in Verona, ...

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The floors creak as you walk downthe hallways. The woodwork is dark and old. Portraits of lawyers and judges from days gone by stare down from the walls. Inside the courtroom, the ceiling and doorways seem impossibly high. The room ...

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An Augusta County woman can pursue her habeas case, even though she completed her jail sentence. Judge Jay T. Swett ruled that her case was not moot, because her conviction resulted in suspension of her nursing license and loss of ...

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Plaintiffs were the foster parents/ prospective adoptive parents of an infant child that had been placed in their home by local DSS days after the child’s birth in April 2009. The birth parents’ parental rights were terminated in March 2010, ...

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An Augusta County Circuit Court overturns a state agency’s denial of an adoption assistance subsidy to a family that took in an infant, with the intent to adopt him, but who were stymied by the agency’s decision that the family ...

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Roanoke attorney Monica Taylor Monday is the leader in support from Virginia’s statewide bar groups for a seat on the Virginia Court of Appeals. Judge James J. Haley Jr. is retiring in March; leaders of the Senate and House of ...

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An Augusta County Circuit Court grants the commonwealth’s motion to quash a subpoena duces tecum for a regional jail’s records about use of inmate time, requested by the lawyer who is defending a contractor’s employee on charges that she embezzled ...

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