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Brian David Hill v. Haylea Workman and Drew Inman
Danville, Virginia pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer filed suit on a civil rights violation thoery seeking injunctive and declaratory relief....
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( 09-03-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Ronald Herrera Contreras, a/k/a Espeedy, a/k/a Speedy, a/k/a Joster Hrndz, a/k/a Chucho
Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with numerous felonies. The were members of MS-13, a violent transnational gang. 2 MS-13 engages in crimes including: aggravated assault; robbery; homicide; extortion; and human, narcotics, and firearm trafficking. ...
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( 09-01-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Wayne L. Lewis
Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by robbery....
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( 08-29-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Trezith Rashad Smart
Newport News, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine....
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( 08-29-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. William O'Neil Murray, III
Harrisonburg, Virdinia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1), (b)(1). ...
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( 08-29-2025 - VA)

Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. The County of Fairfax, Virginia, et al.
Fairfax, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff challenging the constitutionality of the so-called sensitive places doctrine, which allows the government to restrict the presence of firearms in certain locations. A Fairfax County ordinance prohibits “[t]he possession, carrying, or transportation of any firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof” in vari...
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( 08-27-2025 - VA)

Clarence Davis v. Capital One, N.A.
Alexandria, Virginia consumer law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act violation theory. larence Davis received multiple prerecorded messages on his cell phone from Capital One seeking payment for a debt. Davis had never been a Capital One customer and had never consented to receive calls from Capital One. Davis’s cell phone number previously ...
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( 08-25-2025 - VA)

United States of America . Kevin Rongeus Jones, a/k/a Suffolk Ron
Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withpossession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A). ...
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( 08-22-2025 - VA)

Mary Lynn Shumate v. City of Lynchburg, et al.
Lynchburg, Virginia employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a sex discrimination theory. After Mary Shumate, a firefighter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, made allegedly inappropriate remarks about another employee’s sexual orientation, the Fire Chief demoted her. She commenced this action against the City, the City Manager, and the Fire Chief, alle...
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( 08-22-2025 - VA)

George Hawkins v. Glenn Youngkin, et al.
Richmond, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a First Amendment violation theory. Virginia’s Constitution automatically strips individuals convicted of felony offenses of the right to vote but vests in the Governor the discretionary power to restore those rights. George Hawkins, previously convicted of a felony, petitioned to have his voting rights restored....
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( 08-22-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Melvin Leon Myrick
Richmond, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of “actual methamphetamine.” At about 2:00 a.m. on April 20, 2022, a Colonial Heights, Virginia, police officer attempted to stop a silver Nissan for a traffic infraction. The Nissan, however, failed to stop and sped away, reaching well over 85 m...
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( 08-13-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Keith Rodney Moore
Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm. When Richmond, Virginia, police officers observed a vehicle with the temporary license tag number 11134Y, they concluded that it was a fake tag because, within the preceding hours, they had stopped two other vehicles with the identical temporary tag number. The officers activ...
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( 08-04-2025 - VA)

Darrell J. Austin, Jr. v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
Richmond, Virginia consumer law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Credit Reporting Act violation theory. Parties sometimes agree to resolve disputes between them in private arbitration instead of litigating in state or federal court. The Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to honor such an agreement when a party seeks to enforce it, so long as a binding contract to arbitrate ...
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( 08-04-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Fernando Lee Jordan, a/k/a Fernand Lee Jordan, a/k/a Fernando Lee Jordan
Richmond, Virginia pro se Defendant sought a reduction of sentence. Fernardo Lee Jordan appealed the district court’s order denying relief on his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence reduction. “We review a district court’s decision [whether] to reduce a sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) for abuse of discretion and its ruling as to the scope of its legal authority unde...
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( 08-01-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Les Christopher Burns
Lynchburg, Virginia, pro se Defendant sought to fire his appointed counsel. Les Christopher Burns sought to appeal the district court’s order denying his counsel’s motion to withdraw and appoint new counsel in Burns’s ongoing criminal proceedings. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C...
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( 08-01-2025 - VA)

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Roger Bentley
Leesburg, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. Roger Bentley, a gas company manager with involuntary manslaughter for failing to take steps to stop a leak from an underground propane tank that resulted in an explosion and death....
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( 07-22-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Shaheem Johnson
Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. During the 1990s, Johnson engaged in a multi-state drug-trafficking enterprise. During the ongoing drug-trafficking enterprise, Johnson was directly responsible for the deaths of two people.1 In one incident, Johnson, Damein Piranti, Rickey Piranti, and another coconspirator shot and kill...
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( 07-11-2025 - VA)

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Troy McGowan
Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating a protective order. On November 24, 2018, L.M. obtained a permanent protective order against appellant, with whom she had a young son. The protective order prohibited appellant from having "contact of any kind with" L.M. except as permitted by a custody or visitation order and from "commit[ting] ac...
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( 07-03-2025 - VA)

Joel Aaron Burrell v. S. Shirley, Correctional Officer, et al.
Alexandria, Virginia personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a prisoner civil rights claim. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915, federal courts may permit an indigent prisoner to proceed without prepaying filing fees or giving security. The legal term for proceeding this way is in forma pauperis. But Congress expressed concern that prisoners were filing many “frivolous lawsuits floodin...
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( 07-03-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Rodney D. Crawley
Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with federal drug-trafficking. ...
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( 06-13-2025 - VA)

United States of America v. Scott Jenkins
Roanoke, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with: CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES; FRAUDS AND SWINDLES; FRAUD BY WIRE, RADIO, OR TELEVISION; and BRIBERY INVOLVING FEDERAL PROGRAMS. Former Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins was accused of giving civilians police badges in exchange for thousands of dollars, amass...
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( 05-27-2025 - VA)

Commonwealth of Virginia v. He Jie
Chesterfield, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted possession with intent to distribute tax-paid cigarettes and conspiracy to commit a felony. MoreLaw was created to help people find experienced lawyers to represent them in the more than 3,144 counties across the United States. Click the link above to see a list of lawyers ready and willing to...
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( 05-20-2025 - VA)

The State of New York v. Capital One Financial Corporation
Alexandria, Virginia consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sue the Defendant on fraud theories. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against Capital One over claims the company cheated consumers out of more than $2 billion in potential interest earnings on their savings accounts. The CFPB argued Capital One misled consumers about its 360 S...
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( 05-16-2025 - VA)

Lisa Barnhill v. Pamela Jo Bondi, U.S. Attorney General
Alexandria, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on race and gender discrimination theories. MoreLaw was created to help people find experienced lawyers to represent them in the more than 3,144 counties across the United States. Click the link above to see a list of lawyers ready and willing to represent you if you have a legal problem and need help. Call: 918-5...
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( 05-15-2025 - VA)

Eric Lisann v. Elizabeth Lisann
Richmond, Virginia family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce. The wife filed for divorce in October 2019, alleging the ground of having lived separate and apart since July 14, 2014. In the divorce complaint, the wife alleged that "[a]t least one of the parties has intended to live separate and apart for at least one year and that their intent has remained constant for at lea...
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( 05-08-2025 - VA)

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