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

After last week’s action packed set of opinions, the Court of Appeals released a single published opinion this week that, despite clocking in at nearly 32 pages, will likely garner little more than a yawn even from the practitioners of Domestic Relations law.  Horacio Eugenio Sobol v. Christine Marie Sobol is notable more for the peek behind the curtain it gives us into the world of high-priced accounting firms than any new ground in legal thought.  Mr. Sobol is a partner in

The Court of Appeals of Virginia issued ten case decisions this morning, five published and five unpublished.  You will notice that I said “case decisions,” not “opinions” because one of the opinions combined two cases with the same defendant/appellant from the jurisdictions of Waynesboro and Rockingham County.  Gregory Leon Hammer found himself on the wrong side of convictions for abduction, felony eluding, and driving after being declared a habitual offender in the former j

Today is opinion day for the Supreme Court of Virginia, and while I typically will read the opinions from the east side of Ninth Street, I leave the commentary to the sage of Virginia Beach, Steve Emmert.  However, as he concluded his analysis of the Court’s sole published opinion with a invitation for me to weigh in, and as I was logging on to correct a typo in the analysis of the CAV opinions from this week anyway, I thought I would take a moment to comment on Smallwood v.

The Court of Appeals took a break the first week of 2022 but issued three published opinions today (and 4 unpublished).  It will be some while before we see any opinions from the new civil docket, of course, but one of the opinions today has the appearance of being from a civil case because, unusually for the Court of Appeals, one of the parties involved is an estate and the other, at least in part, is a trust. Gabriel Seth Worsham, Executor v. Kathleen Bonnie Crispin Worsham