He has been charged under two Virginia statutes, each carrying the death penalty.

Other Virginia statutes prescribe exceptions to the general rules set forth above.

The Virginia Statute not only rejected official support for a single, established church.

Three defendants were convicted in two separate cases of violating a Virginia statute against cross burning.

They passed statutes that more closely followed the Virginia statute upheld by the Court.

It cited a Virginia statute against "vile, contemptuous or insulting language addressed to a judge."

An overlapping but separate seven-justice majority agreed at the same time that the law at issue in the case, a 50-year-old Virginia statute, was unconstitutional.

Litigation was only "associated" with freedom of expression, and the Virginia statutes only incidentally infringed on this speech.

Virginia statute authorizes a school division to contract with a neighboring school division for school functions.

Relying on the Supremacy Clause, the Court found the Virginia statute invalid.