Category: Courts and law
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“Model Polices” on Transgender Students vs. Laws Guaranteeing Parental Rights
by James C. Sherlock Emilio Jaksetic wrote an excellent article this morning. Mr. Jaksetic, a lawyer, commented on the decision by Judge J. Frederick Watson of the 24th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Virginia Board of Education’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools for…
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Dueling Claims of Victory in Transgender Lawsuit
by Emilio Jaksetic On July 27, 2021, Judge J. Frederick Watson, with the 24th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, issued a decision on a lawsuit challenging the adoption of the Virginia Board of Education’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools, reports The Virginia Star. Because Judge Watson dismissed the lawsuit…
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Confederate Statues and Judicial Fiats
by James A. Bacon The Roanoke County Courthouse is located, oddly enough, in the independent city of Salem. Nearby, within the sight of the courthouse, there stands a statue of a Confederate soldier in front of a building owned by Roanoke College. The college would like to remove it, but the statue is situated on…
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Is DOJ’s Focus on Healthcare Monopolies Coming to Virginia?
by James C. Sherlock The Acting head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Richard A. Powers, yesterday delivered a speech that described the Justice Department’s new goals, strategies and resources for criminal antitrust enforcement. The clouds have darkened over Virginia’s healthcare monopolies. The Commonwealth. Virginia has failed in its duty to oversee its healthcare industry. The…
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Constitutionality of Vaccination Mandate
by Dick Hall-Sizemore There has been much opposition expressed on this blog regarding UVa, and, by extension, other higher education institutions, requiring students and staff to be vaccinated against COVID as a requirement for attending class in the fall. The policy has been said to be, among other things, unconstitutional. Not surprisingly, a judge has…
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Only the Courts Are Protecting Virginians – Again
by James C. Sherlock Barton Swain explores a topic in the Wall Street Journal that bears examination in Virginia. He makes a profound observation: “The sheer illogic of (the Texas election laws) controversy captures something essential about culture-war progressives. They are able to embrace a cause, condemn dissenters and doubters as monsters, and experience no…
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Richmond Public Schools Show No Progress on Staff COVID Vaccinations
by James C. Sherlock Last updated Just 15 at 4:16 PM I have long taken a personal interest in the City of Richmond Public Schools (RPS). Its students have a right under the Virginia constitution to a quality education that they are systematically denied. RPS has utterly failed to educate the children under its care. The…
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Transgender Medical Care for Children – Do not Parents Have a Role?
by James C. Sherlock Yesterday’s two-part column, I responded to the Virginian-Pilot’s assertion that transgender rights are being conflated by conservatives with critical race theory in schools. I agree that they are, and I find it appropriate. Child instruction in CRT and transgender affirming psychological and medical interventions for children without parent participation are…
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Virginia Nets $80 Million for Opioid Treatment
by James A. Bacon Virginia’s Opioid Abatement Authority will get an $80 million shot in the arm (so to speak) from the resolution of a lawsuit pursued by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and his peers in 14 other states. The bankruptcy-court settlement with the Sackler family and its company Purdue Pharma requires payment of…
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Wake Up, Everybody!
by Walter Smith The stupor of Covidiocy has infected all levels of society and greatly damaged our social fabric. Out of fear and suppression of common sense and stories contradictory to “the narrative,” Americans are accepting an assault on their liberties, and have been blinded to see it – even pooh-poohing skeptics like me as…
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Help Me Out. Let’s FOIA UVa about Trespass Warnings
by James A. Bacon Back in April 2018 Jason Kessler, the white nationalist organizer of the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, found himself the target of a series of lawsuits. He was spotted in the University of Virginia Law School library one day, minding his own business and reading up on the law.…
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The Louise Lucas Recall Attempt
by Kerry Dougherty This may come as a shock, but I don’t like what’s happening to State Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth. No, this isn’t a coded message to signal that I’m being held somewhere against my will. I honestly believe that attempts to get the courts to remove her from office are misguided. Make that…
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Great Moments in Virginia Jurisprudence
by Hans Bader Shouldn’t a judge at least know what’s in the Constitution, before getting a promotion? Left-wing trial judge Arenda Wright Allen confused the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution in her ruling striking down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban, noted ABC News. Yet now she is being recommended for a promotion to the Fourth…
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Parole Scandal Judge on “Extended Leave”
by Kerry Dougherty Well, this is odd. According to The Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginia Beach judge who was a key player in the Virginia Parole Board scandal, is missing. So to speak, anyway. There is no Amber Alert. And no indication that Adrianne Bennett is ill. Instead, according to a front-page story in Thursday’s Times-Dispatch, she’s…
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Descano’s Unconstitutional Actions
by Emilio Jaksetic Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve T. Descano has invoked his prosecutorial discretion to issue several “criminal justice reforms.” (Copies are available here.) As part of these reforms, Descano refuses: (1) to prosecute any person for simple possession of marijuana; (2) to prosecute any person for felony larceny for any amount less than…