The Court of Appeals upholds the ABC board’s findings that a restaurant violated state alcohol regulations when it served free alcoholic drinks to staff after 2:00 a.m. and sold liquor such as whisky and tequila by the bottle. Appellant restaurant ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

In a case referred by a hospital to the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program, the commission has no jurisdiction to hear a mother’s separate claim for injuries to her uterus and surrounding tissues from the induced labor, which may ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration can exercise jurisdiction over a facility that receives, blends, stores and delivers coal to specifications of a power plant located across the road; the Secretary of Labor could assign jurisdiction to the MSHA ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

The Virginia Board for Contractors did not err in refusing to grant standing to a homeowner engaged in a years-long battle with a design/build contractor that failed to obtain a final inspection on an addition to a home later purchased ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

A Richmond Circuit Court grants this petition under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and orders the Virginia Department of Education to produce English and Math Student Growth Percentile score results for Loudoun County, by teacher and by school, for ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Richmond Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The neighbor of a rural landowner loses her challenge to an after-the-fact permit granted to the owner to build an access bridge across a shallow mountain creek; the Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court decision upholding issuance of the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge D. Arthur Kelsey Virginia Court of Appeals

The Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act applies to a hookah lounge, which operates as a restaurant with a retail tobacco store on its premises, the Supreme Court of Virginia says, contrary to the decision of the Court of Appeals; construing ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice William C. Mims Supreme Court of Virginia

A hospital loses $36,000 in Medicaid payments for instances in which physicians failed to certify that inpatient admissions were medically necessary; a mere signature by a physician on an admission form is not the certification required under the Provider Agreement, ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Virginia Board of Medicine in plaintiff chiropractor’s suit alleging the board’s disciplinary action against her violated federal antitrust law. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged defendants entered an agreement to allocate the relevant ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

On remand from the 4th Circuit, an Alexandria U.S. District Court holds that Verizon is entitled to a judgment of $227,974.22 plus interest in the amount of $138,724.47 and the injunction bond and security bond posted by CoreTel should be ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District