A judge on Monday dismissed the crux of a lawsuit initiated by the NAACP last month against the Arlington school district that demanded that Nichols Junior High School be shuttered until the source of an illness could be found and eradicated, according to officials. Judge Tom Lowe of the 236th State District Court dismissed the school district, school board president and superintendent as …
It’s been a mystery for months. Students and staff at Nichols Junior High in Arlington have been saying that something in the school has been making them sick: Now, the Arlington NAACP has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to shutter the school until the district can provide answers. “It’s a human rights and a civil rights issue,” says …
The lawsuit against 64 people who spoke in opposition to Nova Armory, the Lyon Park gun store, helped provide the impetus for a state bill to protect protesters from similar court action. House Bill 1941, introduced by southwest Virginia Del. Terry Kilgore (R-1) and co-patroned by local Del.