A deputy clerk said, “OCRA is only for attorneys,” and said the clerk herself was in court. The vault, open to the public, contained an expansive collection of public records. The search program on ...

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 ...

The online records room is controlled by the chief court administrator in Virginia. The courts that keep their records in that room span the state from north to south, east to west, and cover an area ...

Virginia and Maryland allow lawyers to access court documents online, but members of the public cannot. Courthouse News Service is seeking to overturn a Virginia law banning public access.

Both a Virginia federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. (4th Cir.) ruled that Virginia’s citizenship requirement was constitutional. At the same time, the U.S. Court of ...