The backlog of cases in Virginia’s circuit court system worsened during the pandemic. Some people have been jailed for more than a year as they wait for their court date, according to records ...
Legislation that would shield thousands of past court cases from public view could violate the First Amendment’s right of access to judicial records, according to two Virginia attorneys who handle ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The prosecution rested its case Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the sentencing of Christopher Darnell ...
(CN) — A coalition of national and regional newspapers have piled into a legal brief attacking Virginia’s two-road system of access to court records where one privileged group can review the records ...
Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...
In October 2022, the Virginia Supreme Court decided the case of Hawkins v. Town of South Hill (view the opinion here), which fundamentally alters 40 years of precedent in the Commonwealth concerning ...
The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to hear argument on a petition for appeal in Future of School, Inc. v. Stride, Inc., a case that will address important questions about the enforceability of ...