Courts
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WTAR v. City Council of the City of Virginia Beach
An injunction is not justified where there is not a reasonable probability that violations of FOIA will occur again.
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Charlottesville Newspapers Inc. v. Berry
Charlottesville Newspapers Inc. v. Berry, 206 S.E.2d 267, 215 Va. 116 (6/19/1974) Virginia Supreme Court CHARLOTTESVILLE NEWSPAPERS, INC., DOUGLAS PARDUE, AND BENJAMIN F. CRITZER v. DAVID F. BERRY, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY Upon a Petition for a Writ of Prohibition and Mandamus. John C. Lowe (Edward L. Hogshire; Lowe & Gordon,…
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Brown v. Commonwealth
Brown was convicted of a murder in an auto parts junkyard. A newspaper article published on the day after the killing quoted a “spokesman” for the sheriff’s department who gave a different version of the facts than the prosecution later presented in court. Brown wanted to make the reporter give up the identity of that…
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Archer v. Mayes
SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA Archer v. Mayes Record No. 8110 194 S.E.2d 707, 213 Va. 633 March 5, 1973 GRACE ARCHER AND JAMES JOHNSON v. D. CARLETON MAYES, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF AMELIA COUNTY; S. L. FARRAR, JR., CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF AMELIA COUNTY; JOHN L. SMITH, JAMES E. FORD AND…
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Sanders v. Harris (Virginia Supreme Court on libel)
Sanders, a professor at Virginia Western Community College, sued after a newspaper wrongly reported that she improperly withheld documents from her department head. Her employment contract with the university was not renewed after the article appeared, and she was unable to obtain another position with a university. The Court affirmed a circuit court’s ruling in…
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House v. Commonwealth
The Court reversed and dismissed an indictment for a gentleman who sold the “girlie” magazines KNIGHT and RAW. They were not proved beyond a reasonable doubt to be obscene and beyond the area of constitutionally protected expressions, the Court ruled. Determination of whether a particular work of expression is obscene is not merely a factual…
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Bigelow v. Commonwealth
Bigelow was tried, convicted, and fined for publishing an advertisement in the Virginia Weekly, a Charlottesville newspaper, that advertised abortion services in New York. The Court ruled that the statute, which forbid “encouraging or prompting” abortions in any way, was constitutional. The ruling distinguished the lawful regulation of advertisements from the unlawful abridgement of free…