Eastern District of Virginia Court Records

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Search for court records online in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (E.D. Va.) and lookup the case information you need on federal litigation happening across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Get access to the court dockets, court documents, transcripts, and legal data you need on the parties, attorneys, law firms, and judges involved in the court cases in the Virginia Eastern District. 

About the Eastern District of Virginia

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has jurisdiction over 43 counties in the eastern portion of the state and serves over 6 million residents. The District of Virginia was one of the original 13 judicial districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789. In 1871, the Eastern District was formed when the District of Virginia was divided into two districts.

The Eastern District currently has 11 United States District Judges and five United States Magistrate Judges. The Eastern District is divided into the following four divisions: the Alexandria Division, consisting of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties; the Newport News Division, consisting  of Gloucester, James City, Mathews, and York counties; the Norfolk Division, consisting of Accomack, Isle of Wight, Northampton, and Southampton counties; and the Richmond Division, consisting of Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex, Goochland, Greensville, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Surry, Sussex, and Westmoreland counties.

The E.D. Va. has a courthouse location in each division. The Norfolk Division is located at the Walter E. Hoffman U.S. Courthouse, 600 Granby Street, Norfolk, VA 23510. The Newport News Division is based out of the U.S. Courthouse at 2400 West Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607. The Alexandria Division is located in the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse, 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314. The Richmond Division is located in the Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige, Jr., Federal Courthouse at 701 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219.

The Clerk of Court is Fernando Galindo. The Clerk of Court’s office can be reached by calling (757) 222-7236.

The Chief District Judge is the Hon. Mark S. Davis, located at the Walter E. Hoffman U.S. Courthouse. You can reach the Chief Judge’s Chambers by calling (757) 222-7014.

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is Jessica D. Aber. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the E.D. Va. is located at the Justin W. Williams U.S. Attorney's Building, 2100 Jamieson Ave, Alexandria, VA 22314. You can reach the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria by calling (703) 299-3700.

Why use UniCourt to search for cases in the Eastern District of Virginia?

Locating the court records you need for the Eastern District of Virginia from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, can be expensive, difficult, and time-consuming.

Everyday, UniCourt gathers court data for all of the new federal civil cases in the Eastern District of Virginia and gives you the ability to search through all of those new case filings in our CrowdSourced Library™ free of charge. UniCourt also gives you real-time, bulk access to the entire PACER database of civil and criminal federal court data from the Virginia Eastern District through our PACER API. However, unlike UniCourt, PACER charges for every case search you make on their platform, even if the search terms you used do not produce any results. What’s worse, is that PACER does not limit the cost of each case search you make, meaning you could be charged excessive fees for searches that return a mountain of results.

PACER also forces users to pay additional fees if they want to download the same document multiple times. In contrast, if UniCourt has a document you need from E.D. Va. in our CrowdSourced Library™, you can download it for free as many times as you want. Not only does PACER charge to download the same document multiple times, but PACER also charges document fees. PACER charges 10 cents per page and claims that these fees are capped at $3, but they can be much higher for access to court transcripts.

In addition to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, UniCourt gives you access to court records for the other U.S. District Court in Virginia, the Western District of Virginia. UniCourt also provides you with bulk access to all federal court records within Virginia, such as cases filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Beyond federal court records across the Commonwealth of Virginia, UniCourt further provides you with access to Virginia state court records for all of the counties included in the Eastern District: Fairfax County, Prince William County, Loudoun County, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County.

UniCourt’s industry-leading Legal Data APIs provide Enterprise users with on-demand, bulk access to structured data from Virginia state and federal courts. UniCourt collects, organizes, standardizes, and normalizes court data from all federal courts and makes it easily accessible via our APIs as a part of our Legal Data as a Service (LDaaS) offerings for business development, competitive intelligence, litigation strategy, and docket management.

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