An ABC agent who conducted a site vis­it at a liquor license applicant’s business violated her Fourth Amendment rights when, because the agency suspected the business had multiple owners, the agent went into her business office and searched through her ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals reverses an $18,000 sanction against the Virginia De­partment of Corrections levied when DOC was held in contempt for violating circuit court orders requiring the agency to place a demoted employee in a comparable posi­tion, such as ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge James W. Haley Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

An administrative hearing officer for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control did not exceed her authority in questioning witnesses about an un­derage buyer’s purchase of alcohol; the Court of Appeals upholds a circuit court decision affirming the ABC Board’s finding ...

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

In these consolidated appeals of right by the Loudoun County Board of Su­pervisors and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates challenging tolls on the Dulles Greenway, a toll road pri­vately owned by the Toll Road Investors Partnership II ...

Tagged with: Administrative Supreme Court of Virginia

A Maryland lawyer who refused to provide his social security number when paying an annual fee to the Maryland Bar’s Client Protection Fund can have his law license suspended, as the 4th Circuit upholds a denial of injunctive relief in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge Albert Diaz

A Harrisonburg U.S. District Court defers action on the government’s motion to enforce a Civil Investiga­tive Demand against Beam Brothers Trucking Inc. seeking documents re­lated to an ongoing civil investigation into whether Beam submitted false claims to the U.S. Postal ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

In the Federal Trade Commission’s Civil Investigative Demand for doc­uments related to respondent phar­maceutical company’s possible en­gagement in unfair competition with respect to its branded addiction treat­ment branded drug Suboxone, a Rich­mond U.S. District Court overrules respondent’s objections to a ...

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

A media company that prevailed in its suit against the U.S. Department of Justice for release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act wins $100,000 in attorney’s fees and costs; the Norfolk U.S. District Court ap­proves most hourly rates, ...

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

The 4th Circuit vacates an award of black lung benefits, as the ALJ erred in considering only one of three CT scans submitted in support of the former mine worker’s claim and failed to consider the various medical experts’ qualifications. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Judge G. Steven Agee

Executors of the estates of two nurs­ing homes cannot use Virginia regula­tions to compel the nursing homes to produce copies of their policies and pro­cedures in effect during the decedents’ stays; the Supreme Court of Virginia upholds a circuit court ...

Tagged with: Administrative Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia