In the beginning there were three. Clerks, that is. Fifty years ago this month, the Supreme Court of Virginia hired its first class of judicial law clerks. And that first class had three members: John Pedigo, law clerk for Justice ...

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At a robbery defendant’s probation revocation hearing, a trial court did not violate defendant’s due process right to confront witnesses when it admitted a detective’s hearsay testimony concerning two other offenses, one of which never resulted in charges against the ...

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A laborer hired in Virginia to perform a job in Delaware cannot collect workers’ comp in Virginia for a job-related injury, and the Court of Appeals upholds the commission’s denial of benefits. While doing drywall work in Delaware, claimant fell ...

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A divorce court erred in failing to recognize that husband’s acquisition of half the stock of a family pesticide business owned by husband, his brother and their mother, was a gift from the corporation, and the Court of Appeals reverses ...

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An employee who stopped working after being released to pre-injury work is not entitled to benefits from a change in condition, the Court of Appeals says; employee failed to prove adequate marketing of his residual capacity and the commission properly ...

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A delivery truck driver’s pre-existing conditions negate application of a presumption that his heart attack was work-related, the Court of Appeals says; the commission’s denial of dependent benefits is affirmed. Employee worked as mail delivery truck driver for a county ...

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The Court of Appeals says a trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea to a felony charge of abduction with intent to defile of a woman whom he had followed and ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms the commission’s termination of employee’s benefits for failure to participate in vocational rehabilitation; employee may not transform employer’s change of condition hearing into an adjudication of compensability under Va. Code § 65.2-704, the Court of ...

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A claimant who was furloughed from work for a pre-defined and limited duration that applied to all manufacturing employees, whether or not they were work-restricted, is not entitled to lost wages, in the absence of evidence showing a causal relationship ...

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Defendant is not entitled to reversal of his conviction for second offense driving as a habitual offender for lack of sufficient opportunity to appeal his 1999 designation as a habitual offender; the Court of Appeals says defendant failed to raise ...

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