An emergency-room patient who alleges he received no care after a triage nurse prioritized him as “non-urgent” and failed to include his history of diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis condition, has stated a claim for violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a Danville U.S. District Court says.

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State officials trying to notify hundreds of felons that their case files contain newly discovered, but decades-old DNA evidence that could exonerate them are having a hard time finding many of the convicts.

The problems prompted the Virginia State Crime Commission last week to order a team to study better ways of notifying more than 1,000 felons who committed certain crimes from 1973 through 1988. Last month, letters were sent to nearly 400 felons, but officials were still searching for addresses for the rest.

Of the letters that were mailed, 23 percent of the felons acknowledged receiving them, Shawn Armbrust, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, told the commission. Another 15 percent were returned by the postal service, she said.

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A Fairfax County judge dealt the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia a third defeat in their efforts to retain millions of dollars of church property being held by 11 breakaway congregation.  On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Randy I. Bellows ruled on whether the U.S. Constitution’s contracts clause applies to the case and whether the breakaway churches had the right to invoke what’s been termed the “division statute,” an 1867 law that allows a majority of a breakaway church to retain the property.

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