A Norfolk Circuit Court upholds the Virginia Board of Medicine’s decision to indefinitely suspend petitioner’s license to practice medicine. The relatively straightforward issues presented here do not require a detailed discussion of the factual and legal questions of the case ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Norman A. Thomas Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The administrative record supported the Virginia Department of Labor & Industry’s classification of a college’s asbestos-related violations as “other than serious,” a higher designation than “de minimis,” and the Court of Appeals upholds a lower court determination on appeal by ...

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

A federal appeals court vacates a $45 million judgment against a Sumter, S.C., health care system for Stark Law violations and sends the case back, saying the district court’s handling of the case violated the defendant’s Seventh Amendment right to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Allyson K. Duncan

In a law firm’s FOIA action to compel production of records from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command relating to the firm’s clients, Unconventional Concepts Inc. and Michael I. Hopmeier, the Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to order discovery at ...

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

North Carolina’s third-party liability statutes, under which it asserts a lien for one-third of an infant Medicaid recipient’s $2.9 million med-mal settlement, do not comply with federal Medicaid law, which limits a state’s recovery to past medical expenses, and the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Andre M. Davis

A state hospital clerical employee who was terminated for failure to timely transcribe a doctor’s recommendation of pain medication for patients cannot overturn her unsuccessful grievance by claiming the agency did not follow its own grievance procedures; the Court of ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment for defendant Department of Homeland Security in this suit under the Freedom of Information Act, finding plaintiff county has failed to exhaust administrative remedies in requesting information about aliens taken into custody ...

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

A federal firearms licensee with a history of license violations cannot defeat revocation of his license with claims that his violations were not “willful” and were the fault of his employees, and the Norfolk U.S. District Court grants summary judgment ...

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

In this dispute between AT&T Mobility and local exchange carriers that provide telephone service in rural North Carolina, the 4th Circuit affirms a district court decision upholding the North Carolina Utilities Commission’s order governing the terms of the parties’ interconnection ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Andre M. Davis

A native of China who moved to the U.S. in 2007 to attend high school, and to Virginia in 2009 to attend Virginia Commonwealth University, is not entitled to pay in-state tuition rates and the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia