The Virginia Appellate Lawyer’s Court of Appeals of Virginia Blog

It seems that it's not just in national politics that sore losers turn to the courts to seek some redress for an election loss. Amina...

If I had been keeping up with my coverage of the Court of Appeals, I might have speculated whether the split decision in Mazie Green v....

The Court of Appeals handed two local governments victories in the opinions handed down February 13, 2024. In the first case, the...

Virginia has quite a few electric cooperatives. Electric cooperatives are not-for-profit electric transmission providers which are owned...

As there was only one civil case decided February 6, 2024, let's get to it first. Pui Ho v. Ebne Rahman, et al. (February 6, 2024)...

Joshua Stanton v. Virginia Beach - Fire Operations (January 30, 2024) Stanton injured his hip while performing his job as a paramedic and...

The Court of Appeals issued 5 published opinions last week, which due to pressing matters were not summarized in this space. Today the...

It's unusual for an unpublished decision to get a review by the full Court of Appeals even where there is a dissent. It's even more...

The Court of Appeals of Virginia released its first published opinion of 2024 today and it comes with a very bad lesson that I implore my...

The Court of Appeals issued two more published opinions as 2023 closed out. Lisa G. Boxley v. Estel R. Crouse, et al. is about a...

The Court of Appeals released five published decisions today, but only two are from "new" cases. The other three are rehearings en banc,...

The Court of Appeals had a single publihsed opinion this week after having none the week before and it's not much of an opinion as Mary...

The Court of Appeals Blog is catching up after taking a few weeks off. During that time, five published opinions were released,...

[Editor's Note: At times, these posts will strive to balance the serious with the entertaining and sometimes even droll aspects of...

The Court of Appeals issues 4 published opinions in the last weeks of October. You humble correspondent was busy presenting CLEs for the...

The Court of Appeals issues two published opinions today, and one of them represents a fairly rare occurrence -- a pro se appellant...

I am more than a week behind in posting my summary and analysis of recent Court of Appeals' decisions, but with good reason. I have been...

It's not officially fall until September 22, 2023 -- and with post-Labor Day temperatures in the upper 90s in the Star City, I can't...

Ok, I am quite sure I am not the first to butcher the Bard when the legal issue is a default judgment, but with only one new opinion from...

The Court of Appeals of Virginia released three published opinions this week. Brian Kuang-Ming Welsh v. Commonwealth of Virginia involves...