A group of business litigators hopes the Supreme Court of Virginia will save them from a “civil death penalty” imposed by a Richmond judge as punishment for discovery abuse, leading to an $11.75 million judgment. Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret P. ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia is considering whether to change some of the rules that apply to lawyers who become members of other states’ bars, then seek to “waive in” or obtain admission “on motion” to the Virginia State Bar. ...

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Missteps by a Missouri lawyer cost a Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff the chance to prove her claim against a Richmond hospital in a case decided this month by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court offered no remedy for the ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has reaffirmed that the state’s open-records law doesn’t apply to the State Corporation Commission. The justices unanimously ruled Friday that the commission is not a “public body” as contemplated by the state Freedom of Information ...

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Justice Cleo Elaine Powell was invested Oct. 21 as the 102nd justice and the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Powell, who first took the bench in the general district court of Chesterfield County and ...

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ROANOKE–Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser urged the General Assembly to vote thumbs-up or down on the court’s newly endorsed Rules of Evidence without any tweaking of individual rules. The court presented the rules to the Virginia Code ...

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A few states began to adopt codes of evidence in the 1940s and 1950s, based on a Model Code of Evidence, according to University of Virginia law professor Kent Sinclair. After the U.S. Congress enacted a federal code of evidence, ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia on Sept. 16 unanimously turned down the appeal of Navy Seal trainee Dustin Turner, who sought a writ of actual innocence after a codefendant confessed to the murder of a young woman the two had ...

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Key legislators got a look last week at a court committee’s work on judicial redistricting in Virginia, and it appears the committee is sticking with “new math.” Instead of a wholesale redistricting that would reduce the number of circuits, districts ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has a chance to clarify the law on noncompetes as it takes a fresh look at an agreement it upheld over 20 years ago. Then and now, a pest control company with an extensive customer ...

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