The Court of Appeals upholds a protective order providing for supervised visitation, entered on a petition by the local social services department, based on sufficient evidence that appellant’s daughter was abused or neglected; the trial court found father used the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III Virginia Court of Appeals

Plaintiff newspaper has prevailed on its claim that defendant FBI violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to properly respond for over two years to a request for reports or memos regarding an accident in which two FBI special ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a coal miner’s 1993 claim for black lung benefits was denied, an administrative law judge did not err in applying the 15-year rebuttable presumption to grant him benefits on a second claim filed in 2008, and the 4th Circuit ...

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

In the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s appeal of a circuit court decision to remand a landfill permit application to the agency, the Court of Appeals holds that the circuit court appropriately concluded that DEQ incorrectly interpreted the applicable statute, ...

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

A plaintiff who does not have standing to sue the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy for issuance of two permits to a coal company to conduct operations on her property, which she acquired under a deed executed in ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Virginia Freedom of Information Act requires a trial court to give substantial weight to the  Department of Corrections’ security concerns in response to a request for documents pertaining to various aspects of executions conducted in Virginia, and a divided ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice Cleo E. Powell Supreme Court of Virginia

The Court of Appeals reverses a circuit court decision ordering reinstatement of the director of Henrico County Court Services Unit as a result of his employee grievance, as well as an award of attorney’s fees and costs accrued during the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Plaintiff, a lieutenant colonel, cannot overturn placement of the record of an “Article 15” administrative hearing in his restricted personnel file in this challenge to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records, administered in response to his action at ...

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

The Court of Appeals reverses a circuit court’s award of state disability retirement benefits, as well as legal fees and costs, to a city equipment operator who alleged disability due to arthritis, COPD, knee problems, mini strokes, a pinched nerve ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice Charles S. Russell Virginia Court of Appeals

The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a trial court’s denial of an application for name change filed by a federal prison inmate who has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder and wishes to change her name, and directs the court ...

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