JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

He was then criminally convicted for using “abusive language” in violation of Virginia Code § 18.2-416. The Virginia Supreme Court has narrowly interpreted Virginia Code § 18.2-416 The court stated that the Virginia statute did not criminalize the use of the word and it was “not a fighting word per se.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The Virginia General Assembly on Thursday approved a comprehensive state-level Voting Rights Act by a 21-18 vote in the state senate. The post Virginia General Assembly approves state-level Voting Rights Act appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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MARCH 3, 2025

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. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit holding that the group lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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MARCH 20, 2025

The five-episode series will be produced by Legal Talk Network, a leading media platform for legal professionals. The five-episode series will be produced by Legal Talk Network, a leading media platform for legal professionals.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Virginia officials said the practice was discovered in April 2021, when an assistant commonwealth’s attorney asked the Virginia Department of Forensic Science for a certified copy of a report that turned out not to exist.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Virginia legislators are poised this week to consider bills requiring schools to partner with local law enforcement agencies to employ at least one full-time school resource officer, the Virginia Mercury reports. . The Virginia Mercury reports that this is more than double the national average of six per 1,000 students.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

“Menendez adds lawyer with corruption success at Supreme Court to legal team, seeks dismissal of charges; Yaakov Roth has argued for a Bridgegate defendant and represented former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell”: Dustin Racioppi of Politico has this report. Bob McDonnell” appeared first on How Appealing.

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MARCH 21, 2022

“Geofence” search warrants, requests to a judge for Google to list all cellphones its data shows were active in an area around a crime scene, have exploded nearly 600 percent in Virginia in recent years, and by 1,200 percent nationwide. In Virginia, U.S. District Judge M.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

“Supreme Court Is Asked to Hear a New Admissions Case on Race; Parents, backed by a legal foundation, say admissions standards at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia are not truly ‘race neutral’”: Stephanie Saul and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have this report.

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APRIL 5, 2021

The Virginia General Assembly has made a significant change to Virginia Code § 20-106 concerning the requirements for a no-fault divorce. Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia law will no longer require a corroborating witness for a divorce based on no-fault grounds. There are advantages and disadvantages to each.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. She is a past president of the Virginia State Bar, the Fairfax Bar Association and the Fairfax Law Foundation. What We Learned in 2021. Ries here.).

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lost or inaccessible data, business disruption, revenue losses from operational downtime, breach notification costs, legal liability costs and reputational damage. We would add the significant legal costs of hiring a data breach lawyer to oversee the breach response and a digital forensics company to investigate and remediate the breach.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that going forward any Virginian convicted of a felony will automatically have their civil rights restored upon release from incarceration. Tuesday’s announcement gives effect to the proposed change to Virginia’s Constitution, restoring the voting rights of 69,000 Virginians.

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APRIL 21, 2022

That means you have a data breach – and potentially a number of legally required notifications. She is a past president of the Virginia State Bar, the Fairfax Bar Association, and the Fairfax Law Foundation. He and Sharon provide legal technology, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services from their Fairfax, Virginia firm.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Their complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for Eastern District of Virginia, states that Shopify allows many websites to use its technology to illegally print and sell textbooks, test banks and other materials that are identical or “substantially indistinguishable” from the publishers’ products.

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APRIL 13, 2020

With the Temporary Stay at Home Order Due to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) issued by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on March 30, 2020, people are being exposed to increasingly dangerous situations, not just from the outside world, but from their spouses or significant others too. Response of Virginia Courts to COVID-19.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“In Memoriam: Professor Frederick Schauer, a ‘Giant’ in the Legal Academy; Influential Constitutional Theorist and Free Speech Scholar Made Worldwide Impact.” ” The University of Virginia School of Law has posted online this obituary written by Mary Wood.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine cannot be an inventor under the Patent Act. The post Federal court rules Artificial Intelligence cannot be an ‘inventor’ under US patent law appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yet they expose the law firm to legal liability by setting their own duty of care to employees. If something goes south and rogue policies are discovered, the doors to legal liability may be thrown open. She is a past president of the Virginia State Bar, the Fairfax Bar Association and the Fairfax Law Foundation.

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Livesay&Myers

JUNE 5, 2024

Divorce litigation involves various legal tools and pretrial procedures that work to ensure a fair… Continue reading Depositions in Virginia Divorce The post Depositions in Virginia Divorce appeared first on Livesay & Myers, PC.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2025

As future members of the legal profession, we hope youll be able to follow them. To avoid complaints from competitors (see, e.g., West Virginias 2013 winning entry ), your primary performers must come from within the law school community (but cameos from outsiders are okay). Theres always next year. Dont test us, gunners.

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JULY 1, 2021

Wiggs also called for the repeal of language included in the new law that bars public consumption, something she said would effectively prevent legal use by the homeless and residents of public housing and private complexes that include language in leases prohibiting the use of marijuana.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2021

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill Monday legalizing the use of medical marijuana in the state. Alabama’s State Legislature voted to legalize medical marijuana earlier this month. ” Virginia became the first southern US state to legalize marijuana on April 7, 2021.

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JULY 6, 2022

It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. She is a past president of the Virginia State Bar, the Fairfax Bar Association and the Fairfax Law Foundation. In April 2022, a headline caught our attention. She is a co-author of 18 books published by the ABA. .

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter.

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MARCH 3, 2025

In yet another case involving the use and misuse of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence. Although the attorney, Thad M.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

In many states, the legal system assumes that young children are not capable of the thought and planning that goes into committing a violent crime. In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. Do schools need to start searching first graders?

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

However, Judge Virginia Kendall asserted that “direct evidence is rarely available” and accepted the strength of the “circumstantial” evidence presented as sufficient. ” Kendall’s ruling will allow the plaintiffs to legally pursue this issue further.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While we once might have thought these issues were temporary, many legal professionals continue to operate virtually, and even when we are fully free of the pandemic, many of us are likely to continue to practice virtually, at least part of the time. Legal Ethics During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

A UN expert Friday called recent legal charges and proceedings against a former Guatemalan judge and prosecutor “an attack on the rule of law.” Satterthwaite remarked that Laparra’s legal proceedings are rife with due process violations, including excessive use of pretrial detention.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2022

A federal jury in Virginia Thursday convicted former British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh for his role in the 2014 Islamic State hostage-taking plot that led to the beheading of four American journalists and aid workers. What is in dispute – and what you must decide – is whether Mr. Elsheikh bears any legal responsibility.”.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In Thursday’s announcement, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said : The Committee is opening a formal investigation into the learning environments at Harvard, UPenn, and MIT and their policies and disciplinary procedures. Hillel International, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Louis D.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

On July 1, 2021, when the State of Virginia's and the State of Connecticut's cannabis legalization took effect , 18 states across the nation had legalized adult-use cannabis.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. Here is the complete list of 2021 TIG grants: Alaska . California.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? They provide the client with some certainty about the cost of legal services and lawyers with more financial stability and consistency in taking on client matters. The demand for reasonableness of the legal services fee remains regardless of the method of collection.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application, holding that the Patent Act makes clear that inventing is the exclusive legal province of human beings.

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