See East Virginia on Wiktionary
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"text": "While she will want to convince the judge that the court has jurisdiction because no other state has jurisdiction under the jurisdictional tests of the UCCJEA or the UCCJA, whichever happens to be the applicable custody jurisdiction statute of the state of East Virginia, this should fail if she is candid with the court about the previous physical residence of the children in Germany; surely Germany would be considered the children's \"home state.\"",
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"ref": "2008, Barbri bar review: practice questions : multistate testing, →ISBN:",
"text": "Question 1: The State Occupational Health and Safety Board of East Virginia recently issued regulations valid under its statutory mandate requiring that all employers in the state provide ionizing air purification systems for all employee work.",
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"ref": "2009 September 18, Christopher Hendon <ac...@au4jesus.org>, “Need a ticket for East Virginia?”, in AU4Jesus (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20:",
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"text": "But Prince has come to the state of East Virginia, where Ladonna owns additional real property.",
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"ref": "2016, Nancy Weiser, River Runs Deep: Memoirs of a Tomboy, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2000 February 2, Michael Erwin <merwin@ipass.net>, “Electronic Music in West Virginia?”, in alt.west-virginia (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20:",
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