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    The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level...
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  • The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia is the state supreme court of the state of West Virginia, the highest of West Virginia's state courts. The...
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  • States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters of state law, the...
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  • This is a list of past and present judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court's name was the Supreme Court of Appeals until it was changed in 1971...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • from the Court of Appeals go to the Supreme Court of Virginia. A 1971 Virginia Court System Study Commission stated the need for a unified court system...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869,...
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  • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage...
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  • United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only...
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    other circuits. In Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Supreme Court of Virginia did not have immunity...
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  • Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6–3 that executing people with intellectual disabilities...
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    associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United...
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    The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (Russian: Верховный суд Российской Федерации, romanized: Verkhovny sud Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a court within...
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    The lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States cover the law clerks who have assisted the justices of the Supreme Court of the United...
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    demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 116 people...
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  • Wesley G. Russell Jr. (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
    justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and former judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Russell was born in 1970 in Hampton, Virginia and received...
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  • The impeachment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia occurred on August 13, 2018, when the West Virginia House of Delegates voted to impeach...
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  • Below is a complete list of justices who have served on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia since 1863. * appointed ----- † died in office -----...
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  • Court for the District of Vermont State courts of Virginia Supreme Court of Virginia Court of Appeals of Virginia Virginia Circuit Court (120 courts divided...
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  • justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia John Lilburn Thomas (1833–1924), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri John Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd...
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  • judiciary of Virginia is defined under the Constitution and law of Virginia and is composed of the Supreme Court of Virginia and subordinate courts, including...
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  • Teresa M. Chafin (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
    October 4, 1955) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Chafin is a native of Russell County and the sister of the late state senator Ben Chafin...
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    John Blair Jr. (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
    as a delegate from Virginia and was appointed an Associate Justice on the first U.S. Supreme Court by George Washington. A Virginia lawyer since 1757,...
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  • S. Bernard Goodwyn (category Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
    February 23, 1961) is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. He previously served as a circuit court judge in Chesapeake. A Southampton County...
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  • Stephen R. McCullough (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
    a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, former judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, and former career attorney in the Office of the Attorney...
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    2020, but the decision was again put on hold pending appeal. The Supreme Court of Virginia heard oral arguments in June 2021, ruling on September 2 that...
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  • associate justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Edward H. C. Wilson (1820–1870), associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court Francis S...
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  • the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan...
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    A total of 116 people have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest judicial body in the United States, since it was established...
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  • Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that any state...
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