Read Full Article (PDF) As an annual update, this article discusses decisions from the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Court of Appeals of Virginia reviewing procedural issues. Some of the analysis provides a new perspective on a procedural topic and other parts of...
Read Full Article (PDF) This Article surveys recent developments in criminal procedure and law in Virginia. Because of space limitations, the authors have limited their discussion to the most significant published appellate decisions and legislation. Tanner M. Russo *...
Read Full Article (PDF) This Article reviews significant recent developments in the laws affecting Virginia state and local taxation. Its Parts cover legislative activity, judicial decisions, and selected opinions from the pastyear. Part I of this Article addresses...
Read Full Article (PDF) This article marks the first Administrative Law update in the Annual Survey of Virginia Law since 2014. Looking back over the past ten years, Virginia administrative law has remained remarkably stable in comparison to federal administrative...
Read Full Article (PDF) This year could be considered quiet in both legislative and judicial activity, lacking as it was in any substantial new legislative enactments or major opinions from the Supreme Court of Virginia on core wealth transfer issues. Nevertheless, a...
Read Full Article (PDF) One need only look to the research and recommendations regarding the involuntary commitment process, psychiatric hospitalizations, and CSBs to see how the last thirty years of recommendations have signaled the future importance of Specialty...
Read Full Article (PDF) Although there is a Federal Constitution, of which we are all familiar, there are also 50 separately crafted state constitutions designed to respond to the unique circumstances of the territories they govern. These state constitutions contain...
Read Full Article (PDF) Legal academia's system of utilizing student-run journals for publication has its downsides. Professors and students both have shared frustrations in the editing process. While editorial processes differ by journal, often there are issues with...
Read Full Article (PDF) Caleb C. Briggs * * J.D., 2024, University of Richmond School of Law; B.A., 2020, University of Virginia.
Read Full Article (PDF) The wheels of justice move slowly. There is usually a significant lapse of time between the underlying factual events prompting a dispute, the filing of a lawsuit, and an ultimate judgment. During this significant temporal lag, it is not...
Read Full Article (PDF) As the only agency charged with enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act’s antidiscrimination provisions, the Immigrant and Employee Rights (“IER”) section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division plays an important role in...
Read Full Article (PDF) Americans are infatuated with the stock markets, and today’s stock markets are dominated by a small number of large institutions that manage enormous amounts of money. Those two facts are paradoxical given the history of stock markets in the...