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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... More... ( 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 ... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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.... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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. ... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 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... More... ( 05-08-2025 - VA) |
United States of America v. Google, L.L.C.
Alexandria, Virginia anti-trust lawyers represented Google, which was accused to monopolizing two online advertising markets. The Government claimed that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market.” In August 2024, following a... More... ( 04-19-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Anthony Favors
Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape. Anthony Favor was charged with raping a woman in 1992.... More... ( 04-18-2025 - VA) |
Mureal Zalmai v. Corliss Joseph-Conway
Alexandria, Virginia immigraton lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for naturalization pursuant to 08 USC 1531. ... More... ( 03-27-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Paul Chisholm, III
Cheasapeak, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious wounding. Paul Chisholm, III ("appellant") of malicious wounding, in violation of Code § 18.2-51. When appellant failed to appear for his sentencing hearing, the trial court issued a capias for his arrest, convicted him of failure to appear, and sentenced him to 12 months in jail for that offens... More... ( 03-25-2025 - va) |
Rocky Mount, Virginia civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who were discriminated against. Damien Smith, who is Black, his wife, who is while, their son and other relatives were discriminated against by the Defendants because of the race of Damien. The owner sold a tenant:“You didn’t tell me that your friend’s husband is Black… Had I known, I wouldn’t have ren... More... ( 03-21-2025 - VA) |
United States of America v. Darryl Kenneth Dwayne Nelson, II
Lynchburg, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), 846, 851. ... More... ( 03-03-2025 - VA) |
Rebecca Ann Stoots v. Marion Life Savings Crew, Inc.
Marion, Virginia personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a negligence claim. Marion Life Saving Crew, Inc. (MLSC) provides emergency medical and transport services in Smyth County, Virginia.[1] In February 2014, MLSC Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) responded to the home of Calvin Stoots ("Calvin"), where they found him in medical distress. The EMTs were given a copy of C... More... ( 02-25-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jacob Ryan Tolley
Lexington, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession. On April 4, 2022, officers from the Botetourt-Rockbridge Regional Drug Task Force (the "Task Force") conducted surveillance of a home located at 36 Edgewood Drive in the City of Lexington. Members of the Task Force had been sworn in as Special State Police Officers ("SSPOs") with the Virgin... More... ( 02-25-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jimi Argedis Salgado
Manassas, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious wounding. Ilka McCoy and Salgado were in a romantic relationship and lived together until May 2021. By August 2021 they had broken up, lived separately, and McCoy was dating Oscar Lucas. Nevertheless, McCoy and Salgado contacted each other "every couple days" in an effort to remain friends and bec... More... ( 02-24-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jerome Lee Wilkerson
Norfolk, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of drugs. On February 20, 2020, Sergeant Hoggard of the Norfolk Sherriff's Office received information that there was cocaine in cell block 2K of the Norfolk City Jail. After the inmates were all secured in one area, Sergeant Hoggard and a team searched cell block 2K with a narcotics-detec... More... ( 02-20-2025 - VA) |
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jose Roberto Gomez Contreras
Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with "rape, oral sodomy, and animate object sexual penetration ('OSP'), as well as two counts of custodial indecent liberties. K.I.C. was born in El Salvador to Maritza Contreras, appellant's sister.[3] When K.I.C. was two years old, her mother left El Salvador and travelled to the United States. K.I.C. remain... More... ( 02-18-2025 - VA) |