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Back on August 11, the Supreme Court of Virginia dropped a major bomb on the appellate world with a single sentence in Hill v. Commonwealth. The sentence was “In judicial orders, as in ordinary conversation, meaning can be clearly expressed and just as clearly implied.” The idea that a judicial order can have “clearly implied” meaning that is not found in the words of the order seems to run contrary to the well worn adages that “Court’s speak only though their written ord

Did you notice that there was no post to the Court of Appeals of Virginia Blawg last week? You didn’t? Well, there wasn’t. Your humble correspondent was on the road, though not for pleasure alas, and by his return to the Virginia Appellate Lawyer’s World Domination Bunker and Dry-Cleaning Emporium, it was just a bit to close to the holiday weekend to report on the one published opinion issued a week ago. Today, another published opinion was issued and a notice of an en banc p