The Virginia Appellate Lawyer’s Court of Appeals of Virginia Blog

The Court of Appeals released three published opinions and five unpublished opinions today.  If one didn’t know better, you might suspect...

Blake Andrew Mitchell, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia is a published opinion from the Court of Appeals from a case previously refused an...

Time for another mini-rant.  A client of mine has been out of work through most of the pandemic and has struggled to get government...

Just a short observation: If I was as obsessive about proofreading these posts as I am about correcting them when I am reading them after...

The saying “half a loaf is better than none” sometimes applies in the law, but it depends on which half of the loaf you get.  Yesterday...

An attorney observing the virtual oral argument of the appeal of a case he had tried in the lower court was apparently not happy with the...

I try to stay in my lane of summarizing and commenting on Virginia Court of Appeals’ opinions, leaving the commentary on the Mighty Seven...