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Virginia highest court rules city can remove two Confederate statues

JURIST

The Supreme Court of Virginia Thursday ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of General Robert E. Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against the city were the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., and The Monument Fund, Inc.

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Virginia School Board to pay transgender student $1.3 million in discrimination case

JURIST

Working up through the lower courts, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, affirmed lower court decisions in August 2020; that the treatment of the School Board against Grimm was a violation of his constitutional rights. ” The post Virginia School Board to pay transgender student $1.3

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Justices take up double jeopardy case

SCOTUSBlog

Last year the Supreme Court set aside a decision by a federal appeals court in Virginia in a challenge to so-called bias-response team policies, procedures created by universities to solicit, track, and investigate reports of bias. In March 2024, the Supreme Court threw out a ruling by the U.S.

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2023 is the Year of New Consumer Rights

Diane Drain

The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Virus Coverage Outcomes 'Don't Bode Well' For Policyholders

Law 360

Two recent court decisions out of the mid-Atlantic region "don't bode well" for policyholders, according to an attorney for insurers, as the Virginia Supreme Court refused to hear a hotel management company's virus coverage loss case and the Fourth Circuit again held that pandemic-related losses aren't covered by insurance policies.

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Georgia Death Penalty Law in Question Over Language Mistake

The Crime Report

Today, almost every other state besides Georgia requires defendants to prove they are intellectually disabled by showing it to be more likely than not, placing an extraordinary burden on capital defendants seeking to be spared and contradicting a 2002 Supreme Court decision, Atkins v.

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The Nigerian Court of Appeal declines to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement

Conflict of Laws

In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2] 3] In this connection, the author is of the view that the Court of Appeal’s decision was delivered per incuriam. This is the focus of this comment.

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