Category: Courts and law
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A Horrible Death in Colonial Heights โ Part Three. Who Is Responsible?
by James C. Sherlock The government alleges that a woman patient helpless with cerebral palsy and diabetes was so badly neglected at Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center (CHRNC) that: It is important for justice to be fully served to peel back the onion — to address the system in which they worked. CHNRC is…
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An Expensive Failure to Follow the Law
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The refusal of the Youngkin administration to follow the law and Virginia Supreme Court decisions will cost the taxpayers $1.6 million. As reported by the Washington Post, the state has agreed in a court settlement to pay, in addition to $420,000 in attorneysโ fees, $1.2 million to former inmates who were held…
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A Horrible Death in Colonial Heights โ Part Two
Nursing Facility Standards Enforcement Updated Jan 27 @ 1700 by James C. Sherlock Part One of this series served as an introduction to the circumstances surrounding one of the worst deaths humanly imaginable. It shows what happens when standards are not enforced. Charges against staff. The government has alleged that the death was the result…
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An Expensive Test
by Dick Hall-Sizemore In one of the rare trials in Virginia for voter fraud, a Nelson County jury recently found a man not guilty. As reported by Cardinal News, on Nov. 4, 2023, Richardson Carter Bell voted early for the General Assembly and local races.ย On Nov. 7, Election Day, he went to his precinct…
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Cuccinelli Takes a Stand for Prosecutorial Integrity
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia state senator, Attorney General and candidate for governor, has long been the bแปte noire of Democrats.ย Nevertheless, he deserves a lot of credit for his recent stand. In a guest essay in yesterdayโs New York Times, he reminds us of a legal concept that is often forgotten. In…
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The Case Against Assault Rifles
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Pop quiz.ย Who said the following about assault weapons?ย โThey are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defenseโฆ[and] which have become primary instruments of mass killing and terrorist attacks in the United States?โ OK.ย So, it is a trick question. The correct answer is โnone…
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Virginia Supremes Limit Sovereign Immunity in Portsmouth Case
by James A. Bacon H. Cliff Page, an artist, sculptor, Vietnam vet, merchant mariner, civic activist and former candidate for Mayor of Portsmouth, won a victory for individual property rights when the Virginia Supreme Court ruled unanimously in his favor July 3 in a dispute with the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority (PRHA). “This is…
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A Confessed Killer is Found Innocent
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Marvin Grimm spent 44 years in jail and prison for sexual abuse and murder of a three-year old boy, to which he confessed and pleaded guilty.ย However, the Court of Appeals of Virginia recently said that there is no evidence he committed the crimes and fully exonerated him. Grimmโs case is largely an…
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Ryan’s Testimony All Over the Map
by James A. Bacon Testifying under oath several days ago in a Daily Progress lawsuit to pry open a report into the slaying of three UVA football players, University of Virginia President Jim Ryan elaborated upon his official explanation of why he decided to withhold the report until after the trial of the alleged shooter…
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Lawsuit Details How VMI Has Captured Its Alumni Association
by James A. Bacon Twenty-nine Virginia Military Institute (VMI) alumni have filed suit in federal court against the VMI Alumni Association, alleging that the organization is entwined so tightly with the VMI administration that it operates for the benefit of VMI and not its alumni members. The lawsuit recapitulates numerous controversies between dissident alumni and…
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Jason Miyares–Judicial Activist?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Jason Miyares has struck out again. Miyares, Virginia’s Attorney General, keeps asking the Virginia Supreme Courtย to interpret a statute, based not on how it is actually written, but based on what the General Assembly โintended.โ The courtโs response is that its function is to ask โnot what the legislature intended to…
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Wind Project Sued Over Claimed Threat to Whales
By Steve Haner A coalition of public interest groups has now filed its expected lawsuit seeking to halt construction of Dominion Energy Virginiaโs offshore wind facility off Virginia Beach. Its key complaint is the federal permits were issued without a full and fair evaluation of the potential impact of the turbines on the shrinking North…
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War on Fossil Fuels Reaches Court of Appeals
By Steve Haner A climate alarmism publicity stunt masquerading as serious litigation had a hearing in front of the Virginia Court of Appeals on Monday, seeking to revive its rejected petition to shut down the fossil fuel industry in Virginia. Why? Because some of the plaintiffs suffered from heat exhaustion while exercising on summer days,…
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What Is It with Democrats and Criminals?
by Kerry Dougherty Elections have consequences. And when Virginia voted last November to give Democrats a slim majority in the General Assembly they also voted to give almost 8,000 violent criminals a shot at getting back on the streets. This ill-conceived measure – SB427 – is the evil brainchild of Sen. Creigh Deeds, who believes…
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Partisan Poison: Va Dems Quash a Bill to Protect School Kids
by Kerry Doughertyย How exactly is Virginiaโs General Assembly celebrating Black History Month? By killing a bill to protect children in public school lavatories, introduced by Del. A.C. Cordoza of Hampton. Cordoza is an African-American. And a Republican. He was famously denied membership in the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus when he was elected in 2022.…