Executive orders relating to face mask usage in response to the COVID-19 pandemic did not violate the Virginia Administrative Process Act. The governor issued the executive orders under the Virginia Emergency Law. The EOs are not subject to review under ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the Virginia Department of Social Services determined that appellant, a former teacher, “committed level three physical abuse on one of her students[,]” the department complied with the applicable statutes and its internal procedures in making the determination. Further, the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Lisa M. Lorish Virginia Court of Appeals

Where Prince William County required 35 categories of entities, including a church, to obtain a special use permit, or SUP, and the other 34 entities were seemingly secular, the church’s facial challenge to the statute failed. Background Prince William County ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Leonie M. Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a housing voucher applicant alleged the housing authority violated due process in denying her application, but its letter said the denial was based on her criminal history and it promptly provided the records upon which it relied, the due ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where Prince George’s County denied a church’s application for a legislative amendment to the county’s water and sewer plan, that contravened the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, or RLUIPA, because the amendment was a land use regulation subject ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Robert B. King

Where an applicant for disability and social security benefits has relied on job coaches in the past, it was error for the administrative law judge to not assess whether she would need assistance from a job coach if she moved ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where two Maryland taxpayers alleged a Montgomery County cash-assistance program that pays residents, including foreign nationals in the country without documentation, violates a federal statute that prohibits undocumented persons from receiving state and local benefits, the suit was dismissed because ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

Where a provision in the Clean Air Act waived the United States’ sovereign immunity as to “any . . . remedy or sanction,” North Carolina could sue the United States to recover an unpaid civil penalty it assessed when a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

Where the United States showed a law firm was liable for unpaid employment and unemployment taxes, funds which it withheld from its employees’ wages but failed to remit to the IRS, the government was awarded $219,496.82, plus statutory interest and ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the school district agreed on a plan for the student’s development with his parents, and the district received no additional information that there were significant concerns regarding his social or executive functioning skills, it did not violate the Individuals ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Leonie M. Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District