The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

* Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

* 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U. S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court rejected the compact theory in several nineteenth century cases, undermining the basis for the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

The U. S. Supreme Court held that Kentucky's jurisdiction ( and, implicitly, that of West Virginia ) extended only to the low-water mark of 1793 ( important because the river has been extensively dammed for navigation, so that the present river bank is north of the old low-water mark.

Her $ 12, 000 award was reversed by the Supreme Court of West Virginia because she was outside the statutes of limitation when she filed and could not prove that the doctor concealed knowledge of his error.

West Virginia mixes the two ; its highest court is called the " Supreme Court of Appeals ".

The Supreme Court of Virginia said this in Santen v. Tuthill, 265 Va. 492 ( 2003 ), about the practice of an appeal from district court trial de novo to circuit court: " This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to ' annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

Congress recognized West Virginia, as did the Supreme Court in Virginia v. West Virginia,.

Nonetheless in Hollingsworth v. Virginia ( 1798 ), the Supreme Court held that it is not necessary to place constitutional amendments before the President for signature and, by the same logic, the President is powerless to veto a proposed constitutional amendment.

In Martin v. Hunter's Lessee ( 1816 ), the Supreme Court confronted the Chief Justice of Virginia, Spencer Roane, who had previously declared a Supreme Court decision unconstitutional and refused to permit the state courts to abide by it.

The Supreme Court declared executing the mentally handicapped in Atkins v. Virginia,, and executing people who were under age 18 at the time the crime was committed in Roper v. Simmons,, to be violations of the Eighth Amendment, regardless of the crime.

For example, in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. ( 2009 ), the Court ruled that a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia had to recuse himself from a case involving a major contributor to his campaign for election to that court.

In the decades following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court overturned laws barring blacks from juries ( Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880 ) or discriminating against Chinese Americans in the regulation of laundry businesses ( Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886 ), as violations of the Equal Protection Clause.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

** Boynton v. Virginia: The Supreme Court declares that segregation in public transportation is illegal in the United States.

** Oral arguments begin in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U. S. 1 ( 1967 ), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.

** Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U. S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

Freedom Rides were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, ( 1960 ) 364 U. S. that ended segregation for passengers engaged in interstate travel.

In 1790, John Marshall, a private attorney and a veteran of the Continental Army, represented the board of the College of William and Mary, in litigation that required him to defend that corporation's right to reorganize itself and in the process remove professors, The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College ( 7 Va. 573 ; 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia ).

The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the original crown charter provided the authority for the corporation's Board of Visitors to make changes including the reorganization.

* Appomattox Court House, a court house in Virginia

* Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a National Historical Park in Virginia

The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

* Court of Appeals of Virginia

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Farewell address by Lee to the Army of Northern Virginia, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park | Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1865

The highest courts of New Hampshire and West Virginia simply do not have an intermediate appellate court between themselves and the trial court of general jurisdiction, while the intermediate Court of Appeals of Virginia hears appeals as a matter of right only in family and administrative cases.

And, after all, he has lived comfortably at both Oxford, Mississippi, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

In West Virginia the number of white and Negro children attending the same school has increased almost twofold.

Since on the one hand school desegregation has come in Virginia hand-in-glove with pupil assignment, shall we support the plan??

On the basis of pupil assignment criteria, Judge Albert Bryan has assigned Negro children to formerly white schools in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

* Virginia has been known as the " Commonwealth of Virginia " since before joining the United States, and is referred to as a Commonwealth in its constitution.

The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.

" Since 1801, the home of the Commandant has been located in the Marine Barracks in Washington, D. C. and his main offices are in Arlington, Virginia.

Of the several homes that Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented in Philadelphia, only the last house has survived.

In time, projects were devised in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The modern Erie Canal has 34 locks, which are painted with the blue and gold colors of the New York State Canal System.

While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30, 714 students in 2008.

Rumors have persisted that he appears somewhere on the legendary album, and while Richards concedes that it is very likely he is among the chorus of singers on " Sweet Virginia ", to this day nothing has been substantiated.

A hydroponic farmer in Virginia has developed a calcium and potassium enriched head of lettuce, scheduled to be widely available in April 2007.

The company has locations in Virginia, New Hampshire, and Georgia.

The Institute has a satellite campus in Arlington, Virginia.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Formerly an interdisciplinary major at the University of Virginia the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2001 and has quickly grown to wide recognition.

For instance, Virginia has four classes of misdemeanors, with Class 1 and Class 2 misdemeanors being punishable by twelve-month and six-month jail sentences, respectively, and Class 3 and Class 4 misdemeanors being non-jail offenses payable by fines.

It has nine regional offices around the country and runs a training center in Ashburn, Virginia.

Professor Caleb Nelson, a former clerk for Justice Thomas and law professor at the University of Virginia, has elaborated on the role of stare decisis in originalist jurisprudence: