Two judges who financially and publicly expressed support for a citizens’ coalition that opposed relocation of the Augusta County Courthouse outside of the city of Staunton did not engage in misconduct in violation of Virginia judicial canons; the Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice Donald W. Lemons Supreme Court of Virginia

In PETA’s suit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s regulations under the Animal Welfare Act for license renewal of animal exhibitors, the 4th Circuit upholds a decision deferring to the agency’s decision to conduct spot-check inspections of licensees despite PETA’s ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants plaintiff children’s hospital’s motion for emergency injunctive relief against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ enforcement of FAQ 33, in order to reduce a statutory payment adjustment to hospitals that serve a disproportionate ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Henrico County Circuit Court sustains a Virginia state senator’s demurrer to this petition filed under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act seeking information from the senator. FOIA enables citizens to access public records, from any public body that is ...

Tagged with: Administrative Henrico County Circuit Court Judge James L. Yoffy Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff users of the Dulles Toll Road to access Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport have not stated claims against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority with allegations that the MWAA results from an unlawful interstate compact and represents an ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In rejecting a social security disability application filed by a 38-year-old woman who suffered from multiple medically determinable impairments, the ALJ applied an improper legal standard to discredit claimant’s evidence of pain intensity and the opinions of her treating physicians, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge G. Steven Agee

The Court of Appeals upholds the Department of Environmental Quality’s denial of appellant Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s proposal to use biosolids ash on a farm in Virginia Beach; the appeals court cannot say DEQ acted arbitrarily or capriciously in concluding ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A physician whose license was summarily suspended for his conduct of classes at a federal military medical school did not have a due process right to counsel of his choosing, and the Virginia Board of Medicine did not abuse its ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Although the Virginia Board of Medicine erred in saying respondent, a physician board-certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, legally could not testify as an expert in the board’s proceeding against her for her treatment of a particular patient for Lyme ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Appellants, including a commercial wa­terman, did not have standing to challenge a circuit court order upholding a decision of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to grant oyster harvesting ground leases to two individual lessees in areas that previ­ously allowed public ...

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