In this dispute between the current land surface owners and the successors to coal grantee rights, the Supreme Court of Virginia says an 1887 deed did not confer the right to royalties from coal bed methane gas production to owners ...

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It’s a daily occurrence for family lawyers. The client wants a divorce, the lawyer has prepared the pleadings, and it’s time to get the official papers delivered to the opposing party. The local sheriff’s office can do the job – ...

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Construing a 1918 deed that conveyed 75 acres of a 414-acre tract in Russell County, but said the sale was not meant “to convey any coals or minerals, [t]he same being sold and deeded to other parties,” the Supreme Court ...

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The owner of a 10-acre tract left landlocked by a 1961 taking of a strip of land to build Interstate 81, who continued to farm his land for the next 45 years by renting a neighboring 18-acre tract, did not ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia grants a writ of actual innocence to a defendant convicted of felony third offense DUI, holding that an equally divided Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, may not reverse a judgment previously entered by a ...

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An enlisted seaman, who was part of a Navy crew to pre-commission a nuclear submarine built by defendant shipbuilding company and who allegedly contracted mesothelioma from asbestos exposure, is not barred by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act from pursuing a ...

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In the commonwealth’s appeal following remand for an evidentiary hearing on defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to allege specific grounds for withdrawing his guilty plea after sentencing, the Supreme Court of Virginia again reverses the trial ...

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A widow’s survival action for medical malpractice against Virginia Surgical Associates P.C. (VSA) is saved by the tolling provisions of Va. Code § 8.01-229(E)(3), the Supreme Court of Virginia says; her survival action arises out of the same cause of ...

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A convicted felon who seeks restoration of his gun rights must first obtain an order from the governor removing his political disabilities as a condition precedent to his right to petition the circuit court for restoration of his firearm rights; ...

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The Virginia Supreme Court reverses defendant’s conviction of criminal street gang participation in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-46.2(A), for their crime of breaking into the home of an elderly gentleman and shooting him; their other related convictions are unaffected ...

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