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The sole published opinion from the Court of Appeals today is from cross-appeals in a dissolution of marriage case. I am guess that the parties in John Stark v. Firouzeh Dinarany did not share Thanksgiving dinner last week. Stark objected to the circuit court's...
With the state government taking an extended break for Thanksgiving, the Court of Appeals issued 4 published opinions and 3 unpublished one on the last full day of work this week. It’s not atypical for the appellate courts to issues a flurry of opinions at this time...
Have you noticed that, according to their critics, American politicians are concurrently Nazis (imposing vaccine mandates/separating immigrant families), Socialists (expanding Medicaid/favoring specific industries), Communists (Infrastructure spending/umm . . . no...
In the short time that this blawg has been in existence, I have had the pleasure of meeting several of its readers. The most common comment I have received in these encounters is that the humor with which I tend approach my subjects is appreciated. But there is...
Following your humble correspondent’s first appearance as an advocate before the Supreme Court of Virginia this morning, his schedule has become sufficiently flexible to allow him to play catch-up and report on the three most recent published opinion of the Court of...
William R. Winters v. Cleome J. Winters, is, as the case suggests, a domestic relations case, but what it actually involves is the violation of a court order to seal part of the record. The part of the record at issues was a psychological report ordered by the...
So today I received my very first "vanity award" notification. If you are not familiar with the term "vanity award," its basically advertising in the form of a notification that you have been nominated or selected or are under consideration for a prestigious award...
To say that Virginia's Court of Appeals never reverses a criminal conviction would be an exaggeration. In truth, all appellate courts everywhere tend to affirm far more than they reverse judgments, so the odds are already against any given criminal defendant appealing...
As this post's headline intimates, when I began reading the sole published opinion of the Court of Appeal today, I immediately harkened back to an episode of Dragnet. Now let me be clear that I am not old enough to remember the radio version of the franchise or even...
The Court of Appeals released its first published opinion of the new “term” on Tuesday – yes, I know that the appellate court’s in Virginia don’t really have “terms” because they never go into recess, but for so long as memory serves, the appellate bar – and even the...