A Virginia circuit court judge on Wednesday struck down the state's voter-approved redistricting amendment in its entirety, ...

Circuit Court Judge Jack “Chip” Hurley ruled that the April 21 referendum election was “void ab initio” or void from the moment it was created and had no legal effect.

In a recent Board decision dated December 13, 2023, the United States Army Corps of Engineers sought to amend its answer in the case of APPEALS OF – KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT SERVICES, INC., under Contract ...

The doctrine of "void ab initio" is normally seen in the context of due process challenges to enactment of statutes. As summarized in Messina , the doctrine stands for the principle that a statute ...

Assume an irrevocable inter vivos trust has been up and running for some time now, at least it has the outward trappings of a trust. It was ostensibly created not via declaration but via a transfer of ...

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