Appellant company is liable for serious safety violations by its roofers who were working on the roof of the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk near an open skylight without any fall-protection equipment; the presence of a job site supervisor who was ...

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

A Danville U.S. District Court upholds the Farm Service Agency’s denial of a loan for plaintiffs to finish their 4,600-square foot “dream house” that included: two master bedroom suites; a fitness area, a recreation room; an “in-law” suite; a morning ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

A painting contractor cited for an occupational safety violation after a job site inspection revealed an employee did not properly secure his personal fall arrest system does not state a due process violation against defendant Commissioner of the Department of ...

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

A Roanoke U.S. District Court says the U.S. Department of Agriculture mistakenly relied on a regulation that addresses only owners, not tenants such as plaintiff, in terminating plaintiff’s contracts under a federal conservation program, and the court remands the case ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

The parents of a 13-year-old girl with autism who do not want the specialized educational services their daughter requires delivered at the specialty center identified by defendant school board have not made the required showing in their suit under the ...

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

Appellant LifeCare Medical Transports Inc. cannot avoid reimbursement of $367,178 it received in overpayments for providing specialty care ambulance services for Medicaid and dual-eligible Medicaid/Medicare patients that resulted from a system error in the Department of Medical Assistance Services’ computer ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

Although claimant won social security disability benefits when his case was remanded, the 4th Circuit says claimant is not entitled to attorney’s fees, as the government was substantially justified in arguing for rejection of the opinion of a treating physician ...

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

In examining a Maryland program to subsidize participation of a new power plant in the federal wholesale energy market on appeal by energy firms that compete with the new power plant in interstate commerce, the 4th Circuit upholds the district ...

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

Although appellant contends the lighting was poor in the basement where a witness observed him sexually molesting his girlfriend’s one-year-old infant, the trial court did not err in finding the Department of Social Services met its burden to prove appellant ...

Tagged with: Administrative Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals reverses an administrative finding that appellant committed an act of sexual abuse of a child in his care, and vacates the finding by the Department of Social Services, which improperly found that appellant, who was residing ...

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