After last week's action packed set of opinions, the Court of Appeals released a single published opinion this week that, despite clocking in at nearly 32 pages, will likely garner little more than a yawn even from the practitioners of Domestic Relations law. Horacio...
Month: January 2022
After the Weekend Snow, A Flurry of Opinions from the Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals of Virginia issued ten case decisions this morning, five published and five unpublished. You will notice that I said “case decisions,” not “opinions” because one of the opinions combined two cases with the same defendant/appellant from the...
Of Debtors’ Prison and Appellate Procedure
Today is opinion day for the Supreme Court of Virginia, and while I typically will read the opinions from the east side of Ninth Street, I leave the commentary to the sage of Virginia Beach, Steve Emmert. However, as he concluded his analysis of the Court's sole...
Court of Appeals Rings in the New Year (a little late) with Three Opinions
The Court of Appeals took a break the first week of 2022 but issued three published opinions today (and 4 unpublished). It will be some while before we see any opinions from the new civil docket, of course, but one of the opinions today has the appearance of being...