The Court of Appeals of Virginia issued ten case decisions this morning, five published and five unpublished.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...
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...
The Court of Appeals took a break the first week of 2022 but issued three published opinions today (and 4 unpublished).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...
With only one published opinion today and nary an unpublished opinion, the Court of Appeals of Virginia is sending 2021 out with more of a whimper than a bang. Even the one opinion, Kionne L. Pulley v. Commonwealth, does not deal with any new or earthshattering...
The Court of Appeals issued a single opinion today, and with it delivered an early Christmas present to the appellant in Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko. At least until the Court of Appeals starts hearing estate and trust cases, you can probably guess by the...
At this season of the year with the joy of religious celebrations and festivities for the coming of the New Year, it is unfortunate -- but also perhaps necessary -- that we will inevitably be reminded of the harshness of the world. Whether it is the tragedy of the...
Anyone who reads this blog with any regularity knows that the one topic quicker to put your humble correspondent off his feed than any other is Administrative Law. It's just not his cup of tea and never has been. So naturally when I saw that the appellant in today's...
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the state government taking an extended break for Thanksgiving, the Court of Appeals issued 4 published opinions and 3 unpublished one on the last full day of work this week.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...