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Supreme Court of Virginia

Index Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1]

71 relations: Administrative law, American Civil War, American Revolution, Appeal, Appellate court, Appellate jurisdiction, Arlington County v. White, Atkins v. Virginia, Barbara Milano Keenan, Buck v. Bell, Capital punishment in Virginia, Charter of 1606, Circuit court, Constitution of Virginia, Court of Appeals of Virginia, Criminal law, Cynthia D. Kinser, DNA, Donald W. Lemons, Edmund Pendleton, English law, Family law, First Continental Congress, Flag and seal of Virginia, G. Steven Agee, George Wythe, Governor of Virginia, Habeas corpus, Henrico County, Virginia, Hite v. Fairfax, House of Burgesses, Jamestown, Virginia, Jane Marum Roush, John Blair Jr., John Charles Thomas (judge), Judiciary, Labor Day, Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, Loving v. Virginia, Lower court, Lucy v. Zehmer, Lund v. Commonwealth, Mandamus, Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, Martin v. Ziherl, NAACP v. Button, Naim v. Naim, Original jurisdiction, Paul Carrington (judge), Professional responsibility, ..., Richmond, Virginia, Scull v. Virginia ex rel. Committee on Law Reform & Racial Activities, State Corporation Commission (Virginia), Staunton, Virginia, Supreme court, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, United States, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States Declaration of Independence, United States v. Virginia, Virginia, Virginia General Assembly, Virginia v. Black, Virginia v. Moore, William Fleming (judge), Williamsburg, Virginia, Winchester, Virginia, Winston v. Lee, Writ of prohibition, Wytheville, Virginia. Expand index (21 more) »

Administrative law

Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Appeal

In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed, where parties request a formal change to an official decision.

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Appellate court

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court, court of appeals (American English), appeal court (British English), court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

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Appellate jurisdiction

Appellate jurisdiction is the power of a higher court to review decisions and change outcomes of decisions of lower courts.

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Arlington County v. White

Arlington County v. White, 528 S.E.2d 706 (Va. 2000), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia that prohibited the local government of Arlington County from expanding its employee health insurance benefits beyond spouses or financial dependents.

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Atkins v. Virginia

Atkins v. Virginia,, is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 that executing people with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments, but states can define who has intellectual disability.

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Barbara Milano Keenan

Barbara Milano Keenan (born March 1, 1950) is a United States Circuit Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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Buck v. Bell

Buck v. Bell,, is a decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Capital punishment in Virginia

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Charter of 1606

The 'Charter of 1606', also known as the First Charter of Virginia, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of propagating the Christian religion.

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Circuit court

Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions.

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Constitution of Virginia

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the document that defines and limits the powers of the state government and the basic rights of the citizens of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Court of Appeals of Virginia

The Court of Appeals of Virginia, established January 1, 1985, is an eleven-judge body that hears appeals from decisions of Virginia's circuit courts and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

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Criminal law

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

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Cynthia D. Kinser

Cynthia Dinah Kinser (born December 20, 1951) is a Virginia lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

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Donald W. Lemons

Donald Wayne Lemons (born February 22, 1949) is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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Edmund Pendleton

Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.

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Family law

Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.

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First Continental Congress

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

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Flag and seal of Virginia

The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state.

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G. Steven Agee

George Steven Agee (born November 12, 1952) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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George Wythe

George Wythe (1726 – June 8, 1806) was the first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, and a Virginia judge.

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Governor of Virginia

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin meaning literally "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

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Henrico County, Virginia

Henrico County (formerly Henrico Shire), officially the County of Henrico, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Hite v. Fairfax

Hite v. Fairfax, (Original Case Citation: 4 Call 42) 8 Va. 42 (1786) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia that upheld the original title of land granted to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron over what was known as the Northern Neck of Virginia, a large tract of land located between the headwaters of the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers claimed by Jost Hite.

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House of Burgesses

The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed in 1642 by the General Assembly at the suggestion of then-Governor William Berkeley.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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Jane Marum Roush

Jane Marum Roush (born September 24, 1956) is a Virginia lawyer and Judge who served as an interim Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 2015 to 2016.

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John Blair Jr.

John Blair Jr. (April 17, 1732 – August 31, 1800) was an American politician, Founding Father and jurist.

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John Charles Thomas (judge)

John Charles Thomas (born 1950) is an American attorney and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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Judiciary

The judiciary (also known as the judicial system or court system) is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.

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Labor Day

Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.

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Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia

Landmark Communications v. Virginia,, was a United States Supreme Court case that was argued on January 11, 1978 and decided on May 1, 1978.

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Loving v. Virginia

Loving v. Virginia, is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

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Lower court

A lower court is a court from which an appeal may be taken.

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Lucy v. Zehmer

Lucy v. Zehmer, 196 Va.

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Lund v. Commonwealth

Lund v. Commonwealth (Va. 1977) 232 S.E.2d 745 is a Supreme Court of Virginia case involving theft of services.

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Mandamus

Mandamus (Latin "we command") is a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a superior court, to any government, subordinate court, corporation, or public authority, to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do (or refrain from doing), and which is in the nature of public duty, and in certain cases one of a statutory duty.

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Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on March 20, 1816.

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Martin v. Ziherl

Martin v. Ziherl, 607 S.E.2d 367 (Va. 2005), was a decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia holding that the Virginia criminal law against fornication (sexual acts between unmarried people) was unconstitutional.

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NAACP v. Button

NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963), is a 6-to-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the reservation of jurisdiction by a federal district court did not bar the U.S. Supreme Court from reviewing a state court's ruling, and also overturned certain laws enacted by the state of Virginia in 1956 as part of the Stanley plan and massive resistance, as violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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Naim v. Naim

Naim v. Naim, 197 Va 80; 87 S.E.2d 749 (1955), is a case regarding interracial marriage.

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Original jurisdiction

The original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction, when a higher court has the power to review a lower court's decision.

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Paul Carrington (judge)

Paul Carrington (1733–1811) was a Virginia lawyer, judge and politician.

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Professional responsibility

Professional responsibility is the area of legal practice that encompasses the duties of attorneys to act in a professional manner, obey the law, avoid conflicts of interest, and put the interests of clients ahead of their own interests.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Scull v. Virginia ex rel. Committee on Law Reform & Racial Activities

Scull v. Virginia ex rel.

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State Corporation Commission (Virginia)

The State Corporation Commission, or SCC, is a Virginia (USA) regulatory agency whose authority encompasses utilities, insurance, state-chartered financial institutions, securities, retail franchising, and railroads.

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Staunton, Virginia

Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Supreme court

A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in many legal jurisdictions.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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United States v. Virginia

United States v. Virginia,, is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only admission policy of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in a 7–1 decision. (Justice Clarence Thomas, whose son was enrolled at VMI at the time, recused himself.).

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia General Assembly

The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World, established on July 30, 1619.

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Virginia v. Black

Virginia v. Black,, is a First Amendment case decided in the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Virginia v. Moore

Virginia v. Moore,, is a Supreme Court of the United States case that addresses use of evidence obtained by police in a search incident to an arrest if that arrest is later found to be unlawful.

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William Fleming (judge)

Judge William Fleming (July 6, 1736 – February 15, 1824) was an American lawyer, jurist and political figure from Cumberland County, Virginia.

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Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Winchester, Virginia

Winchester is an independent city located in the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Winston v. Lee

Winston v. Lee, 470 U.S. 753 (1985), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that a compelled surgical intrusion into an individual's body for evidence implicates expectations of privacy and security of such magnitude that the intrusion would be "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment, even if likely to produce evidence of a crime.

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Writ of prohibition

A writ of prohibition is a writ directing a subordinate to stop doing something the law prohibits.

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Wytheville, Virginia

Wytheville is a town in, and the county seat of, Wythe County, in western Virginia, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Virginia

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