NEWS FROM VIRGINIA LAWYERS WEEKLY
Concerns raised that scanning includes clients’ personal info
As Virginia court clerks begin to make electronic case records available in their offices and even online for members of the bar, officials hope to reassure lawyers that electronic court records are no more publicly available than the old paper records.
- Slip-and-fall scores $1.3M in Richmond
- Lawyers’ convictions reversed
- Enforce the rules: Kelsey takes strict line on procedure
- Court: A weak brief is not jurisdictional error
- Employers: Revisit your Family Leave policies
- Crime Commission to begin examination of gun show sales
- Government approves Metrorail extension in Northern Virginia
- Judge wants assurances medication will continue
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TODAY'S TOP OPINION
Employment Discrimination - Disability – Jail Officer – Missing Hand
A Hampton Roads jail that refused to hire as a jail officer a woman born with one hand is denied summary judgment, in the face of the woman’s use of a tactical defense training expert who put her through a battery of drills to show she can perform the essential functions of a jail officer, in a new decision from the U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Taylor v. Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority (USDC-ED) (VLW 008-3-169) (15 pp.)
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- Municipal - Delinquent Tax Collection – Negligence – Immunity
- Traffic Offenses - Appeals - DUI - Refusal
- Bankruptcy - Dischargeability Of Debt – Fiduciary ‘Defalcation’ – Equipment Dealer – Ch. 7
- Criminal – Fraud – ERISA Pension Plan
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The VLW Blog
Bar groups set May 19 deadline for SCC information
If you want a favorable review from a statewide bar group for an appointment to the State Corporation Commission, you’d better pull that résumé together and go to Gov. Tim Kaine’s Web site fast.
Bush nominates Conrad
President Bush nominated federal district Judge Glen E. Conrad of Roanoke to a seat on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. The Associated Press has the story.
McDonnell sues car title lender
Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell credits a Charlottesville weekly paper for exposing violations of Virginia's consumer finance act.
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