Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

(CN) — Virginia has put in place a statewide system of access to court records. But it is blacked out to the public and the press. The online records room is controlled by the chief court ...

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 handle ...