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There is no “good faith exception” when it comes to hand-delivering a list of employer-approved doctors to an employee with compensable injuries as required by the Workers Compensation Act, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has held. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission agreed with the employer’s argument that it shouldn’t be responsible for the employee’s . ....
Where appellant inmate challenged a statute’s constitutionality, the trial court erred by ruling appellant did not present an “actual controversy” to the court. Background “Edwards, an inmate, was charged under Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) Operating Procedure (‘OP’) 861.1 for violating disciplinary offense code 213, ‘failing to follow institutional count procedures or interfering with count.’ . ....
The Court of Appeals of Virginia has affirmed a lower court’s ruling to enforce a contingent-fee agreement between two Virginia attorneys after they disagreed over the percentage of the contingency fee. The prevailing attorney argued the proper percentage was one-third of any recovery obtained by settlement, while the other attorney claimed that the agreed-upon percentage . ....
Where a statute repealing Code § 18.2-250.1 (possession of marijuana) was enacted before appellant's conviction, the common-law rule of abatement does not void his conviction. Virginia's saving statute, Code § 1-239, controls the result in this case. The conviction is affirmed. Under Code § 1-239, “when the General Assembly explicitly and unambiguously repeals a statute, . ....