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UPDATE: This case was dismissed on June 19, 2020.
The ACLU of Virginia has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit under the Virginia Human Rights Act on behalf of two...
Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for his role in the 2002 sniper shootings in Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, which occurred when he was seventeen years old....
UPDATE: The judge sustained the demurrer, dismissing the case against Dr. Schmidt.
A defamation lawsuit against a University of Virginia professor who spoke out through the news media about local...
On July 1, 2019, we joined ACLU national, the Cato Institute, and the Rutherford Institute in filing an amicus brief in support of a currently pending petition before the Fourth Circuit, for the Court to...
The ACLU and the ACLU of Virginia, along with Relman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC, a Washington, D.C.-based civil rights law firm, filed a federal lawsuit against the owner of a Chesterfield County apartment...
The ACLU of Virginia, in collaboration with the law firm of White & Case LLP, today filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) seeking to end the practice...