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6 May 2020, 1:09 pm
At a press conference on May 4, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the Commonwealth’s three-phase plan for easing, and eventually lifting, the restrictions imposed on nonessential businesses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
4 May 2020, 11:50 am by Howard Friedman
  The suit seeks to enjoin the state of Virginia from enforcing its COVID-19 Order limit on church services. [read post]
4 May 2020, 9:02 am by Chris Stephens
The Commonwealth is under a state of emergency and is urging all Virginians to practice social distancing. [read post]
3 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Commonwealth, the Ohio Supreme Court’s ruling in Rutherford, and the New York Constitutional Convention of 1821. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 5:44 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board accepted the license revocation by consent of an attorney who pled guilty to criminal charges as described by 13 News Now A former Commonwealth's attorney pleaded guilty to more than two dozen child sex... [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Suit was filed last week in a Virginia federal district court seeking to enjoin state officials from enforcing COVID-19 related limits on gatherings of more than ten people against Lighthouse Fellowship Church. [read post]
” H.B. 330 and S.B 480  define “low-wage employee” as either: “(i) an individual whose average weekly earnings are less than the average weekly wage in the Commonwealth (currently $1,125 per week); or (ii) an independent contractor compensated at an average rate less than the median hourly wage for the Commonwealth for all occupations as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. [read post]
Legislators in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the site of Patrick Henry’s infamous “Give me liberty, or give me death” speech, have enacted legislation that gives more liberty to low-wage workers looking to leave for greener pastures, joining the ranks of many other states that have passed similar restrictions (stay tuned for a post soon on Indiana’s own recently passed non-compete legislation application to physicians). [read post]
The amended VHRA will only apply to employers with more than five (5) but fewer than twenty (20) employees, leaving older citizens of the Commonwealth who work for employers with 20 or more employees without a state-court remedy for age discrimination. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 6:41 am
On April 22, 2020, during a special legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly voted to approve Governor Ralph Northam’s proposed amendment to a bill that will increase the Commonwealth’s minimum wage to $12.00 per hour by January 1, 2023. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 8:30 am by Derek Muller
The teller, Representative Gregg Harper of Mississippi, announced to the joint session, “The certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Colorado seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that Hillary Clinton of the State of New York received nine votes for President and Tim Kaine of the Commonwealth of Virginia received nine votes for Vice President. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 1:43 am by Matthew Fischer
House Bill 477 and Senate Bill 546 raise the age that the Commonwealth’s Attorney can move a juvenile to be tried as an adult without court approval from 14 to 16. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 6:14 am by Jon Katz
Indigent people can request a court-appointed lawyer (whether a public defender lawyer or private practicing lawyer accepting court appointments of criminal cases), but can be precluded from being granted such an attorney in Virginia when the prosecutor informs the judge that the commonwealth is waiving jail time. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 5:42 am by Steven Pagach
“This is a historic moment in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” said Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 8:40 am by SurovellFirm
Finally, on December 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Virginia issued a ruling that decided the matter conclusively. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 6:54 am by Jon Katz
As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that profanity is also criminalized in the commonwealth when used for computer or phone harassment. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 11:49 am by Kevin Kaufman
The Commonwealth is urging everyone to file by May 1 as usual to avoid interest. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 6:56 pm by Jon Katz
The post Stay home order in Virginia allows exceptions says Fairfax criminal lawyer appeared first on Jon Katz, P.C.. [read post]