A Richmond lawyer once honored on national television for her work with juvenile offenders will give up her law license and serve three months in jail after admitting to smuggling a cell phone and narcotics to an inmate. The lawyer ...

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In this litigation arising from a 2012 industrial accident in which a hired con­tractor was injured by exposure to am­monia vapors, a Hopewell Circuit Court says Virginia law on indemnification will apply, as the New Jersey law selected by the ...

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On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, at approximately 1:19 p.m. Cathy Skeeters was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Impala southbound on Route 35 in Sussex County. Skeeters approached the intersection of Route 626, a 1995 Western S Tractor, with trailer, owned by ...

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A Hopewell Circuit Court grants petitioner’s motion for summary judgment to prevent the city council from going into closed sessions to discuss elections to the position of mayor and vice mayor. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Va. Code ...

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A police officer was not justified in stopping a car because of a 5-inch parking pass on the rear view mirror, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled, reversing convictions of marijuana distribution and other drug offenses for a ...

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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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A Virginia circuit judge has approved the state’s new method of DNA analysis after a challenge by lawyers for a man facing the death penalty. The July 26 decision by Colonial Heights Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett validates the methodology ...

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The chair of the Sussex County Board of Supervisors has resigned from the board after a judge refused to toss out allegations that he misused his office. Rufus E. Tyler Sr. was a 17-year veteran of the board, and at ...

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Plaintiff was a 30-year-old Brunswick County deputy sheriff who was returning from a visit at his grandmother’s house to his residence on April 2, 2009, when he collided with a tractor-trailer. Plaintiff was driving a 2004 Kawasaki motorcycle. The motorcycle ...

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Even though an accused killer had been living with his estranged wife at her house, he did not have standing to challenge a search of the residence because he was under a court order to have no contact with her, ...

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