Category: Virginia Supreme Court

Virginia Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Teacher Fired Over Transgender Pronoun Use

The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to consider the wrongful dismissal appeal of a teacher fired for refusing to use masculine pronouns for a female high school student. Peter Vlaming, who taught French at West Point Public Schools in West Point, Virginia, east of Richmond, was ordered by the school board to stop “avoiding…


Virginia Supreme Court Adopts Electoral Map Shifting Congressional Districts

The Virginia Supreme Court has given its blessing to new electoral maps for Virginia’s congressional delegation and its state legislature following a process that for the first time kept elected officials out of the decision-making. The contentious once-in-a-decade exercise included a bipartisan redistricting commission that deadlocked and failed to complete the task. It then fell…


Virginia Supreme Court Names Outside Experts to Draw Maps in Messy Redistricting Fight

The Virginia Supreme Court has appointed two special masters nominated by either political party to redraw Virginia’s electoral maps within a 30-day deadline after an independent state commission deadlocked over a redistricting plan. A special master is someone appointed by a court to carry out some sort of action on its behalf, in this case…