Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has issued a legal opinion that says police have the authority to check the immigration status of anyone lawfully stopped or arrested in the state.
A free handbook prepared by legal aid groups explaining to inmates how they can assert their constitutional rights in federal court is a threat to prison security, officials in Virginia…
A judge has ordered a Virginia lawyer and his client to pay a $272,000 sanction for filing “a combination of frivolous claims supported by wild speculation.”
A summer associate at King & Spalding with a seemingly bright future who was to start his third year of law school this fall died early Sunday in a Washington,…
Ruling from the bench, a federal judge in Virginia has dismissed all claims against George Mason University and its law school dean in a high-profile sexual harassment suit.
Updated: Two commercial shrimpers have filed a federal lawsuit in Louisiana against the owner and operator of a oil rig that exploded and sank last week in the Gulf of…
Calling a former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney’s testimony an “affront to justice” and “one of the biggest pack of lies I’ve ever heard,” a federal judge in Alexandria,…
When a deluge of phone calls and letters began insisting that Nancy Taylor owed nearly $2,000 on a Sears account, the San Jose, Calif., resident fought to protect her excellent…
Late last year, a judge convicted Erick Williamson of misdemeanor indecent exposure after two women complained that they had seen him standing naked in a window or doorway of his…
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