The circuit court correctly ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to enter a final divorce decree nunc pro tunc after one of the parties died. Background Tommy and Greta Johnson married in 1974. Greta filed for divorce in 2017. After a ...

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Where claimant, a registered nurse, was attacked by a patient while working for her employer, the evidence supports the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission’s findings that the employer did not provide adequate care following the attack. The record also supports the ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Even though the circuit court correctly denied appellant’s motion to strike a charge of conspiracy to distribute drugs, her conspiracy conviction is reversed. The court should have given proffered instructions informing the jury about single buyer-seller relationships and under what ...

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

Where the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission awarded claimant benefits after she filed an award agreement that was not signed by her employer’s representatives, the commission correctly vacated the award and denied claimant’s request to sanction the employer for not promptly ...

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Where claimant injured his hip and suffered dog bite injuries while working for a swimming pool company, the evidence supports the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission’s conclusion that the hip injury resulted from the dog attack even though it did not ...

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Where the claimant testified that no one told her that her doctor, in response to a query from claimant’s counsel, had cleared her for light, sedentary work, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly concluded that she had been entitled to ...

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The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly determined the average weekly wage of an injured hockey player by dividing his salary over a 52-week period rather than the number of weeks in the hockey season. The commission also correctly refused to ...

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The trial court should have granted appellant’s motion to suppress drugs found in his vehicle because he broke no law when he crossed a single, solid white line while changing lanes. Thus, there was no justification for the traffic stop. ...

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

Where appellant purchased a firearm while subject to a protective order, the return of service of the order was not testimonial and therefore not subject to the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause. As a result, appellant cannot challenge his misdemeanor conviction ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

The judges of the Virginia Court of Appeals went in three different directions in analyzing when a document – a signed proof of service – can take the place of live testimony to prove violation of a criminal statute. At ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Judge David W. Lannetti Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals