Each Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Virginia posts information about the petitions for appeal that it has granted over the previous week. The Supremes heard writ arguments last week (h/t to Emmert–and, by extension, Alan Cooper–for that link to the writ docket), and have since granted one petition for appeal:
MORRIS v. CHEDDA, Record No.
It’s like a ghost town around here. How long can we make readers wait for a halfway-decent substantive post?
Unfortunately, the drought continues. I have been busy. Very, very busy. In addition to my day job–which has been crazy, though that’s never really an excuse for not posting–I have spent the time that could have
Here are more of the questions and searches that have led people to De Novo, and our feeble attempts to address them:
Cufflinks at oral argument?
No.
Noting objections on a final judgment order in Virginia.
Generally a good idea, espcially if the trial court is still in a position to take corrective action.
Our office has been in the midst of a debate about moot-courting appellate arguments.
Some lawyers think that it’s invaluable; a moot court allows you to test themes and arguments, and exposes you to lines of questioning that you wouldn’t have otherwise anticipated. Others find it costly and excessive. They rarely if ever moot their
A few weeks back, I did a post on a day in the life of an appellate lawyer. I was delighted to find a (somewhat more restrained) companion piece in Leesburg Today, which ran a Q&A with Justice Mims last Friday.
Justice Mims answered a number of questions, including “Describe a typical day
After more than 40 years on the bench and service at every level of the Virginia judiciary, Justice Koontz has run up against the mandatory retirement age. Earlier this week, he took the time to speak about his career with his former clerk (and my current partner) Monica Monday at a meeting of the Ted
My dad retires this month after 32 years of public service as a tax lawyer for the State of New York. I still have no idea what he does on a daily basis. I understand that it involves numbers.
My brother, Patrick, also works with numbers. They must be different numbers, because he doesn’t know
It’s time for another round of the increasingly bizarre searches that lead people to this blog, and our responses:
Rule 5:17, which governs petitions for appeal, includes a few important changes that practitioners should note.
First, Rule 5:17(c)(1) clarifies what you need to include in your assignments of error: Under a separate heading called “Assignments of Error,” the petition must list, “clearly and concisely without extraneous argument” the specific errors in the rulings below
Christina MacIsaac and David Gluckman have a fun article in the VADA‘s most recent Journal of Civil Litigation called, “Yes, They Matter: Recent ‘Commonwealth Cases’ Every Civil Practitioner Should Know.”
Their basic thesis is that civil litigators doing crunch research may have a tendency to gloss over criminal cases–but that they do so “at