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RICHMOND — A federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on the constitutionality of nondisclosure agreements in Baltimore Police Department settlements, which advocates claim unduly restrict speech and limit public access to information about police brutality. Attorneys for the city told ...

A “husband” whose nine-year marriage was negated because the couple’s Washington wedding was at odds with their Virginia paperwork cannot save the union by labeling it a common law marriage under D.C. law.

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The Roanoke Times is asking a judge to force former Times sports reporter Andy Bitter to give up his use of a Twitter account.

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A law that criminalizes concealment of a dead body should not apply to a fetus that died before birth, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring now says, months after a woman was convicted under the statute.

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RICHMOND – A group of Norfolk jurors may decide whether rusty locks on a pedestrian bridge would justify a court-ordered remedy. A Norfolk circuit judge says under a 1919 law, he will impanel a special grand jury to determine whether ...

  RICHMOND – A political organization that used two photographs of famous musicians on its website – without credit to the photographer – was not liable to the lensman despite a creative commons license that required attribution, a federal judge ...

    RICHMOND – Armed with a nearly century-old statute and pressing for a special grand jury, a Hampton Roads lawyer hopes to get the city of Norfolk to remove dozens of so-called “love locks” clamped onto a historic pedestrian ...

RICHMOND – Colleges have become frequent litigation targets for students who disagree with disciplinary penalties. A recent, short-lived lawsuit against Virginia Tech focused not on personal injury, however, but on social media behavior. A student claimed Virginia Tech officials violated ...

RICHMOND – When your work puts you close to victims of abuse and pain, you can find yourself becoming victimized as well, mental health experts warn. For lawyers in certain fields of practice, part of the job can be finding ...

RICHMOND – The Supreme Court of Virginia has rerouted a short cut to recovery for some surgery patients. The court ruled this month that a surgeon who mistakenly operated on the wrong level of a patient’s spine cannot be sued ...