The Virginia Supreme Court has refused to take up a case that suspended multiple appointees by Gov. Glenn Youngkin from ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Many notable Supreme Court cases have shaped American law and society. As various rulings help us understand constitutional rights and influence public policy, it’s essential to ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal court in Virginia where the Justice Department has decided to charge Edward Snowden with leaking secrets about U.S. surveillance programs has a long track record of ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia appeals court has ruled that Norfolk police did not need a search warrant to access data from the city’s network of Flock Safety cameras, a decision that could influence ...