Big News! The Supreme Court of Virginia has 25 cases pending . . . not from one session, 25 total.
Steve Emmert, the Sage of Virginia Beach, beat me to the punch on analysis of the recent elections and the potential impact on the bench....
John S. Koehler
Nov 9, 20236 min read
Why English Majors are Better at Grasping the Universe than Physicists (or Attorneys)
The two gentleman here are Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson, and they are responsible for many undergraduate students of mathematics and...
John S. Koehler
Aug 19, 20234 min read
If this happens in a Virginia Court . . .
The plaintiff's attorney in a case in the Federal District Court of New York for the Southern District asked the Court for a three week...
John S. Koehler
May 4, 20232 min read
What is the Opposite of NIMBY? Deep Pockets Try a Hail Mary in the Virginia Supreme Court
An article in the Virginia Mercury advises that the Wegmans grocery company is seeking a rehearing before the Supreme Court of Virginia...
John S. Koehler
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Bomb or Bomblette: Supreme Court Says “No” to Sovereign Immunity Claim by Community Services Board
Back on August 11, the Supreme Court of Virginia dropped a major bomb on the appellate world with a single sentence in Hill v....
John S. Koehler
Sep 9, 20227 min read
Choosing Your Words with Clients Carefully — “Justice” is a Two-Edged Sword
Time for another patented rant. When talking to your clients, you always need to be careful with the words you choose, of course. But...
tloojs
Jun 14, 20223 min read
Politicians Should Govern First and Play Politics Second (or Never)
Time for another patented rant. There have been a number of news stories dealing with Virginia politics and politicians that have raised...
tloojs
Mar 2, 20225 min read
There is an Easy Fix to the AG’s Complaint About Staffing Issue
In the Virginia Mercury today, Ned Oliver reports that Attorney General Jason Miyares wants 75 new positions to handle an “unexpected”...
tloojs
Feb 21, 20222 min read
Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you
Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe was a baseball player from Ash Flat, Arkansas. His major league career spanned 16 years in the mid-20th...
tloojs
Feb 17, 20224 min read
Why Defunding NASA would be Bad for the Economy
Time for another rant. Yesterday, NASA announced that it was having to delay its first test mission for the planned return to the moon. ...
tloojs
Feb 3, 20223 min read
Will the Virginia Supreme Court be Idle for Most of this Year?
In hopefully what is not a sign of things to come, the first month of the New Year passed without a single granted appeal from the...
tloojs
Feb 2, 20222 min read
Of Debtors’ Prison and Appellate Procedure
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,...
tloojs
Jan 14, 20224 min read
Why the United States is not Becoming a (insert demonized political theory here) State
Have you noticed that, according to their critics, American politicians are concurrently Nazis (imposing vaccine mandates/separating...
tloojs
Nov 20, 20212 min read
An Award You Have to Pay For is Advertising; Advertising You Have to Pay For and Provide Prospects i
So today I received my very first “vanity award” notification. If you are not familiar with the term “vanity award,” its basically...
tloojs
Oct 14, 20211 min read
Judge Leaving the Courtroom was a Reasonable Response to an Unreasonable Situation
For the media report of this story, see The Roanoke Times. My view of this incident is a little different — Judge Dillion had ruled and...
tloojs
Sep 26, 20212 min read
The Pandemic Did Not Cause Americans to Lose Their Empathy, it Just Exposed a Sickness in the Americ
The reality of the world we live in. The two stories in the images above were on pages 1 and 2 of The Roanoke Times today. Thousands,...
tloojs
Sep 4, 20214 min read
Do away with Assignments of Error? I Think Not, Mr. O’Keeffe.
Fellow Appellate Blawger James J. O’Keeffe has a provocative post on his website which I picked up on Linked-In and commented there and...
tloojs
Aug 31, 20213 min read
The US Supreme Court’s October 2020 Term In Review
Overview of the October 2020 Term: A Year of Transition The Supreme Court began hearing cases for the term on October 5, 2020. The...
tloojs
Jul 23, 20215 min read
Where have all the Workers Gone?
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...
tloojs
Jun 9, 20214 min read
OCD, but not too OCD
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...
tloojs
Jun 6, 20211 min read