Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

Legislation that would shield thousands of past court cases from public view could violate the First Amendment’s right of access to judicial records, according to two Virginia attorneys who handle ...

When two bureau chiefs and an editor traveled along the Appalachias visiting courthouses, they put 1000 miles on the rental car’s odometer over the course of a week. They were making a point. Virginia ...

From In re: E.B.M., decided July 26 by Judge David A. Oblon (Va. Cir. Ct. Fairfax County): The issue before the Court is whether it may seal from public inspection a name change order and related ...

Augusta County Circuit Court Clerk Steve Landes. Augusta County Clerk of the Circuit Court R. Steve Landes was appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to the Board of Trustees for the Frontier Culture Museum ...