A hookah lounge that features onsite smoking of flavored tobacco through a hookah, but also sells food and beverages, is subject to state regulation under the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act, the Court of Appeals says. The Virginia Department of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals

The record does not support the administrative law judge’s finding that claimant, who suffers from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety disorder, degenerative disc disease and irritable bowel syndrome, was not credible in her account of her condition and limitations on ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge B. Waugh Crigler U.S. District Court - Western District

The 4th Circuit says a district court did not err in granting a preliminary injunction to a class of Medicaid recipients challenging the state legislature’s decision to limit their access to in-home Personal Care Services, but the case is remanded ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Henry F. Floyd

A Chesapeake Circuit Court orders the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance to pay a hospital’s legal fees in the parties’ dispute over reimbursement for medical services provided by the hospital to Medicaid patients. A party has substantially prevailed on the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge V. Thomas Forehand Jr. Virginia Circuit Courts

The Federal Trade Commission has not demonstrated the reasonableness of its response in this FOIA suit filed by a law firm seeking information about the FTC’s interactions with representatives of the alcoholic beverage industry, on behalf of a firm client ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Documents provided to the federal government by a military housing contractor to obtain approval to terminate the contractor’s partnership with another company and sue it for alleged fraud are not discoverable by the defendant company through a FOIA request, and ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

On rehearing en banc, the Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court decision holding that appellant Virginia Marine Resources Commission lacked jurisdiction to order Chincoteague Inn to remove a floating platform from over state-owned bottomland. VMRC argues the circuit court ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court reconsiders its earlier decision denying dismissal of this suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in light of the 4th Circuit’s Oct. 18, 2012, decision in Hire Order Ltd. v. Marianos [VLW 012-2-185], and ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

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