A drugstore company cannot compel return of privileged material obtained through a subpoena for documents issued by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency targeting the company’s distribution center in Jupiter, Florida, in an Alexandria U.S. District Court decision accepting the recommendation ...

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

A Richmond Circuit Court rejects an appeal by a student who challenges Virginia Commonwealth University’s ruling denying in-state domiciliary tuition status, who says she should receive in-state status because she was born and lived here until a young age, prior ...

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

Federal labor regulations governing farm workers, including workers on Christmas tree farms, could not be reinstated by the Department of Labor without the notice and comment period mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act, and the 4th Circuit upholds a district ...

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

A homeowner who won a default judgment against a contractor who accepted $35,000 to build an addition to her house only to have him dig a trench, pour footings and then abandon the job, wins reconsideration of her claim by ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

An Abingdon U.S. District Court will not dismiss this “citizens suit” under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 alleging defendant coal mining company has diminished and contaminated plaintiffs’ water supplies and failed to provide them with an ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiffs were the foster parents/ prospective adoptive parents of an infant child that had been placed in their home by local DSS days after the child’s birth in April 2009. The birth parents’ parental rights were terminated in March 2010, ...

Tagged with: Administrative Augusta County Circuit Court Judge Victor V. Ludwig

An Augusta County Circuit Court overturns a state agency’s denial of an adoption assistance subsidy to a family that took in an infant, with the intent to adopt him, but who were stymied by the agency’s decision that the family ...

Tagged with: Administrative Augusta County Circuit Court Judge Victor V. Ludwig Virginia Circuit Courts

A homeowner is not entitled to compensation from the Board for Contractors based on deficient work by the contractor hired to renovate her home; the Court of Appeals says the circuit court erred in considering evidence on appeal that was ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Walter S. Felton Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

The 4th Circuit upholds a federal agency’s interpretation of its regulation under the National Trails System Act to require a state agency that wants to sponsor conversion of a railroad right-of-way to a public trail to indemnify the railroad against ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has been rebuffed in two different cases in its efforts to get back money it paid for services rendered through Medicaid. In cases from Fairfax and Norfolk, DMAS sought to retract payments of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Lorraine Nordlund Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court