A federal judge has ruled the state of Virginia cannot force a woman to remove Social Security numbers of high-profile individuals from her website that she legally obtained…
A federal judge has refused to sanction a white supremacist who posted the home address and telephone number of a lawyer for Troutman Sanders in Richmond, Va.
Sentenced to a 30-year prison term in a 1981 plea bargain for murdering two hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia after sharing a meal with them in May of…
An $11 million settlement that was reportedly agreed to several months ago by victims and survivors of last year’s shooting massacre at Virginia Tech has now…
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that state courts must enforce a child custody order issued by a Vermont court in the dissolution of a same-sex civil union.
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld a federal ban on late-term abortions, the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit struck down Virginia’s late-term law as unconstitutional.
Lawyers for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad have filed a habeas appeal seeking to overturn his death sentence because jurors were not told of his abuse as a child or…
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a Norfolk circuit judge abused his discretion when he fined a lawyer $14,000 when the lawyer’s client filed for bankruptcy on the eve…
A famed civil rights leader who was present when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated almost exactly 40 years ago has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughter during…
A partner with Troutman Sanders in Richmond, Va., testified Wednesday that a neo-Nazi’s online comments about his role in a fair-housing suit have upended his home life.
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t have the authority to make rule changes designed to streamline the patent process.
Although an upcoming merger at the end of the month will put more than 100 lawyers at Charlotte, N.C.-based Helms Mullis & Wicker into one of the nation’s largest law…
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