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  • Domestic relations – Circuit court’s spousal support and property determinations are affirmed
  • Appeals – Circuit court dismisses appeal filed in wrong court
  • Criminal – Trial court lost jurisdiction to act on defendant’s motion

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valawyersweekly.com /4 weeks ago

Domestic relations – Circuit court’s spousal support and property determinations are affirmed

Where husband failed to show the circuit court erred when it made its spousal support, real property and wedding ring rulings as part of entering a final order of divorce, […] The...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 week ago

Appeals – Circuit court dismisses appeal filed in wrong court

Where a party noted an appeal to the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond from a Virginia Department of Health Professions order suspending its Virginia registration, but then fil...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Trial court lost jurisdiction to act on defendant’s motion

Where a man moved to have his state sentence suspended following his release from federal custody, but the circuit court did not issue a final judgment within 60 days from […] The...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 week ago

Criminal – Circuit court erred when it held statute was facially unconstitutional

Where the circuit court declined to address the defendant’s First Amendment overbreadth challenge to a criminal statute, and did not rule on whether the statute was unconstitutiona...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Felony eluding conviction supported by dash cam video

Where testimony and dash cam footage showed the defendant rapidly accelerated away from the police, exceeding the speed limit by more than 30 mph while swerving in and out of […] T...

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valawyersweekly.com /4 weeks ago

Civil Procedure – Three related cases are transferred to Illinois

The court granted defendants Xirgo Technologies' motion to transfer three related cases to the Northern District of Illinois, reconsidering prior rulings under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Parent and child – Record supported termination of mother’s parental rights

Where the circuit court did not err in finding that the mother had not substantially remedied the circumstances that led to the children’s removal from her care, the record support...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Civil Procedure – Circuit court lost jurisdiction 21 days after final order

Where the circuit court issued a final order, and did not, within the next 21 days, enter a written order staying, vacating or otherwise modifying that order, the circuit court […]...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Zoning – Man convicted of zoning violation

Where a man convicted of a zoning violation in the district court argued the summons was inadequate to inform him of the nature of the offense, this argument was rejected. […] The...

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valawyersweekly.com /4 weeks ago

Criminal – Court refuses defendant’s motions to withdraw his guilty plea

After his Alford plea, the circuit court convicted Baltazar Albear Jr. of abduction by force or intimidation. Before sentencing, Albear twice moved to withdraw his guilty plea; the...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Allen charge wasn’t abuse of discretion

Where the jury sent a note that they were deadlocked, and that they sought direction from the court on “[w]here” to “go from here,” the trial court did not abuse […] The post Crimi...

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valawyersweekly.com /4 weeks ago

Appeals – Circuit court wrongly entered judgment for district court losing party

Simone P. Parker filed a warrant in debt against Enterprise Trading Inc. in the general district court. After a hearing, the general district court awarded her $6,050. Enterprise a...

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valawyersweekly.com /3 weeks ago

Criminal – Former chief of police convicted of sex trafficking of a minor

Where the defendant argued his attorney’s representation posed an unwaivable conflict, but his motion for a new trial was filed too late, and he repeatedly consented to the attorne...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Firearm possession sentence was not substantively unreasonable

Where the district court sufficiently considered the defendant’s mitigation evidence, provided a sufficient explanation for its sentence and did not impose a substantively unreason...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 week ago

Search and seizure – Search warrant application provided insufficient basis to search premises

Where a search warrant application failed to establish a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime would have been found in the location to be searched, and a […] The...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Writ of coram nobis denied

Where a man filed a writ of coram nobis eight years after obtaining the information upon which it relied, and he failed to identify errors at trial that rise to […] The post Crimin...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 week ago

Antitrust lawsuits against CoStar consolidated in Va. federal court

Four antitrust lawsuits against CoStar Group alleging monopolistic practices have been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The post Antitr...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Speedy trial violation results in conviction being reversed

Where the Commonwealth violated a defendant’s speedy trial rights, his conviction for unlawful wounding for shooting a young man in the face during a drug deal was reversed and a [...

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valawyersweekly.com /3 weeks ago

Criminal – Sentence vacated because of Rogers error

Where the district court included in the written criminal judgment home confinement conditions that it did not mention at sentencing, it erred. A district court must orally pronoun...

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valawyersweekly.com /2 weeks ago

4th Circuit weighs in on FMLA interference claim

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on qualified immunity in an FMLA interference claim involving an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Virginia. The post 4th Circuit wei...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Criminal – Woman dodges disorderly conduct conviction

Teona Seqouya Rose's disorderly conduct conviction was reversed by the Virginia court due to the other-crimes proviso allowing assault charges instead. The post Criminal – Woman do...

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valawyersweekly.com /4 weeks ago

Domestic relations – Code § 8.01-428(B) inapplicable to untimely appeal

Where a woman argued the JDR court should have amended the date on its final order pursuant to Code § 8.01-428(B), so that her untimely appeal could be retroactively made […] The p...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 month ago

Civil Procedure – Court seals briefs and exhibits

The wdva court granted motions to seal briefs and exhibits containing confidential business information in McCall v. Experian Information Services, LLC. The post Civil Procedure –...

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valawyersweekly.com /1 week ago

Ex-Nexus executive asks Augusta County judge to merge charges

Richard E. Moore, former Nexus executive, asks Augusta County judge to merge multiple felony charges related to alleged embezzlement and financial exploitation. The post Ex-Nexus e...

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