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AG: Boards must follow state transgender policy
RICHMOND, Va. — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new model policies for the treatment of transgender students are in line with federal and state nondiscrimination laws and school boards must follow their guidance, the state’s attorney general said in a nonbinding legal analysis released Thursday. “The Model Policies ensure that all students are treated with […]
Supreme Court OKs work on natural-gas pipeline
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia. Work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline had been blocked by the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, even after Congress ordered the project’s approval as part of the bipartisan bill […]
SC Supreme Court to decide if elected sheriff is qualified
MCCORMICK (AP) Clarke Stearns has been working as sheriff for more than 18 months in McCormick County, but it’s still up in the air whether he is qualified to be the county’s top lawman. Stearns’ Democratic opponent in the 2016 election, J.R. Jones, sued him within a month after his victory, saying Stearns never served […]
Elections – Virginia’s Three-Tier Ballot Order Upheld
Libertarian Party of Virginia v. Alcorn (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-109-16, 27 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 15-1162, June 20, 2016; USDC at Richmond, Va. (Payne, S.J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of Libertarian political candidate Robert Sarvis’ constitutional challenge to Virginia’s three-tiered ballot ordering law; the three-tiered ballot ordering law imposes little burden [&[...]
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- Virginia Tech student got due process in hearing
- High court justices cross the line of propriety
- High court’s term was rough on big business
- The flip side of generative AI in law and how to address it
- The fight for equal educational opportunity continues
- Letter From The Editor – Working from Home
- NLRB joins FTC in taking aim at non-competes
- Supreme Court leaves key internet protection untouched
- US Supreme Court bites back at parody’s use of the First Amendment
- My goal: Provide the information that you need now
- Case study: North Carolina courts provide guidance on scope, limitations of attorney-client privilege
- A Different Ode to Pro Bono Work
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