Updated: 3:37 PM EDT May 22, 2021
ROANOKE, Va. Court officials said a longtime federal judge in Virginia has died.
The Roanoke Times reports that Senior U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad was 71 when he died on Thursday.
A statement posted Friday on the website for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia didn t specify Conrad s cause of death.
Conrad served as a federal magistrate judge for more than 27 years before then-President George W. Bush nominated him for his district court judge s seat in 2003.
He continued to hear cases after taking senior status in December 2017.
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A lawsuit filed on behalf of several Albemarle County residents against two Charlottesville police officers accused of violating their civil rights by stopping their car while in Nelson County, out of their jurisdiction, is heading to mediation following a judgeâs order.
According to the lawsuit, filed in 2018 by local civil rights attorney and social activist Jeff Fogel, Officer Jon Freivald was wearing his city police uniform and driving his squad car on Oct. 12, 2016, when he pulled over a car driven by Tasha Hudson.
A second police officer, identified only as John Doe, is also named in the suit.
Cross motions for summary judgment were denied via a memorandum opinion from Senior U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad late last month.
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A legal case challenging the constitutionality of “red flag” gun confiscation laws was dismissed Friday after VA Attorney General Mark Herring declared such laws did not violate constitutional rights.
The case, which was filed by a Virginian man in July who claims the new state law was unconstitutional, was dismissed by Judge Glen E. Conrad in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, WWBT reported.
“Virginians voted overwhelmingly for gun violence prevention last November and the General Assembly delivered by passing proven-effective measures, like this so-called ‘red-flag’ law,” Herring said. “In Virginia, we have already seen how this ‘red flag’ law has been used to save lives by keeping firearms out of the hands of someone who could use it to harm themselves or others.”