Posts Tagged Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia’s Supreme Court Rejects Prison Gerrymandering Lawsuit
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on September 23, 2021
The Supreme Court of Virginia is already weighing in on redistricting, closing the door on the practice of prison gerrymandering. Michael Pope reports.
A Temporary Moratorium on Evictions Will Soon End
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on June 23, 2020
The Supreme Court of Virginia (Credit: Morgan Riley / Creative Commons / Wikimedia Commons
The Supreme Court of Virginia is ending the eviction moratorium, a move that could spell trouble for people caught up in the economic crisis. Michael Pope reports.
COVID-19 Leads to Rare Judicial Emergency in Virginia
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on March 18, 2020
The Supreme Court of Virginia’s judicial emergency will suspend non-essential, non-emergency cases in courthouses across Virginia, including eviction cases. (Credit: Morgan Riley / Creative Commons)
Daily life has changed not just at restaurants and gyms. Much of the action in your local courthouse has also been postponed. Michael Pope reports.
In Virginia, Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole Wait in Limbo
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on October 24, 2016
Credit: Jail / Flickr
Jason Clem is 12 years into a life sentence for a murder he committed when he was 16. A nonprofit estimates there are 60 people like Clem in Virginia, serving a life sentence without hope of parole, for a crime they committed when they are under 18. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that’s unconstitutional. But, so far, that’s had little effect for those in Virginia. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
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From NPR News- Cassidy Hutchinson, a Mark Meadows aide, to testify at Tuesday's Jan. 6 panel hearing June 28, 2022Cassidy Hutchinson, the Mark Meadows aide who appeared in videotaped testimony before the Jan. 6 committee last week, is the panel's surprise witness today.
- Accounting giant Ernst & Young admits its employees cheated on ethics exams June 28, 2022Ernst & Young is being fined $100 million by federal regulators after its employees cheated on ethics exams.
- A German court sentences 101-year-old to 5 years for role as Nazi guard June 28, 2022The regional court in Germany convicted the man of 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
- This is how life in post-Roe America is starting to shape up June 28, 2022As the Supreme Court prepared to issue its decision overturning Roe, NPR spent weeks speaking to experts and activists about what will likely happen next.
- Also hit by inflation? Your local taco truck June 28, 2022Higher prices for gasoline, meat and vegetables and even cooking oil have put pressure on food trucks as they struggle to balance menu prices with customers' expectations of a low-cost meal.
- Cassidy Hutchinson, a Mark Meadows aide, to testify at Tuesday's Jan. 6 panel hearing June 28, 2022
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- Friends pay tribute to woman killed by stranger June 28, 2022Zara Aleena, who was killed in east London on Sunday, "lit up the whole room".
- Texas migrant deaths: Mexico blames poverty and US border crisis June 28, 2022Migrants of Mexican, Honduran and Guatemalan origin were among 50 found dead in a truck in Texas.
- Census: Population of England and Wales grew 6% in a decade June 28, 2022Last year's census shows one of the biggest population rises ever recorded.
- Alex Scott: I will carry on despite sexist abuse June 28, 2022The TV presenter and ex-England defender says she feels a "responsibility to change perceptions".
- Lewis Hamilton and F1 condemn Nelson Piquet's racially abusive language about British driver June 28, 2022Lewis Hamilton says "archaic mindsets need to change" and have no place in Formula 1 after three-time world champion Nelson Piquet uses racially abusive language about him.
- Friends pay tribute to woman killed by stranger June 28, 2022
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