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Virginia Court of Appeals Judge Robert J. Humphreys apparently will be off the bench – at least temporarily – because of an impasse in the General Assembly over the appointment of judges.
The legislature had an opportunity to fill more than two dozen vacancies when it met last night to complete work on the 2008-10 state […]

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President Bush yesterday nominated Virginia Supreme Court Justice G. Steven Agee to a seat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Agee would take the seat vacated by Judge J. Michael Luttig in 2006 when he left the court to take a job a Boeing.
Bush previously nominated Richmond lawyer E. Duncan Getchell for the […]

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Former College of William & Mary president Gene Nichol and his wife, Glenn George, are headed to Chapel Hill, NC, to rejoin the faculty of the University of North Carolina law school, reports The Daily Press.
Nichol resigned the W&M presidency abruptly last month after learning his contract would not be renewed; he and George […]

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The family of a Dickenson County coal miner killed in a 2003 mining accident will get another chance to prove their products liability claims against the manufacturers of a mining machine’s remote control device that was strapped to the miner’s body.
On March 12, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Jim Jones’ grant […]

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Virginia’s 14 drug courts survived the General Assembly budget battle and will get a $6 million allocation under the agreement just hammered out. But a new $2 million program to help inmates re-enter society after prison was gutted.
The Daily Progress has this account, which includes comment from local drug court officials.
And The Virginian-Pilot offers […]

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A federal jury in Abingdon on March 6 found Roy Shelburne, a Lee County dentist, guilty on 10 counts, including health-care fraud and racketeering. Sentencing is set for June.
The Bristol Herald Courier has reported he is still seeing patients and practicing dentistry.
U.S. Attorney John Brownlee wants to put a stop to that, and has filed […]

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The VLW Blog celebrates its first anniversary today.
On March 12, 2007, Virginia Lawyers Weekly became the first member of the Dolan Media Company law group to enter the blogosphere. We launched the blog to provide a means to get legal news from across Virginia out to our readers and users as quickly as it […]

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George A. Chabalewski, the head of the Virginia State Bar’s disciplinary system since June 2006, has submitted his resignation, effective July 9.
Chabalewski joined the bar staff after 20 years as a civil litigator in the Virginia attorney general’s office. He had worked earlier as a prosecutor and public defender in Kane County, Ill.
In an e-mail […]

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Powhatan County District Judge Paul W. Cella reportedly is hospitalized with multiple injuries following a motorcycle accident yesterday. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Cella’s BMW motorcycle collided with an automobile on U.S. Route 360 near Central Garage. A state trooper told the paper that the driver of the auto pulled into Cella’s path. The auto’s […]

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Norfolk Circuit Court Judge Charles E. Griffith has lost his bid for another eight-year term, reports The Virginian-Pilot. One House Republican leader acknowledged that Griffith, who served as commonwealth’s attorney before going on the bench, will not be reelected.

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