SCOV Law Blog: Gimme back my bullets
A mixed result for Defendant who has basically won a prize of more hearings and litigation.
The Supremes: Are you my attorney?
The gist of plaintiff’s claim in this case is that the City’s Attorney was, in fact, his attorney and that his subsequent letters and demands that he be fired breached the duty that every attorney owes a client and effectively embarrassed plaintiff in public.
The Supremes: The importance of being cc’d
The attorney never formalized her agreement with the Office of Child Support that her lien would take priority over the state agency’s claim.
The Supremes: Cover me
The factual story behind today’s case is not a tragedy on par with Hamlet or the Iceman Cometh. It is, in fact, a straightforward narrative that may be dispatched in one sentence: girl attends a swim meet, falls off a piece of playground equipment, and suffers a terrible injury.
The Supremes: The case of the phantom tenant
The lesson for today: You can’t exorcise a ghost if it didn’t break the lease.
The Supremes: The good, the bad and the unpreserved
Testifying that you “do not know” or that “you do not remember” is the quickest way to discredit yourself to the jury or the judge.
The Supremes: The road worrier
Today’s cautionary tale is yet another brick in the wall that the Supreme Court has been building for the past 20 years that has vested more and more authority in towns to control their roads and their hearing process.
The Supremes: A bit more play
Pretty much everything but a signed confession fell out of Defendant’s pants at the arrest. This is not to mention the giant puff cloud of cocaine Defendant created at the station when he tore one of the bags open.
The Supremes: Don’t hold it against him
Prior bad acts are admissible to prove motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.
VT Supreme Court to hear oral arguments at Vermont Law School
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2011 CONTACT: John Cramer Associate Director of Media Relations Office: 802-831-1106 Cell: 540-798-7099 jcramer@vermontlaw.edu SOUTH ROYALTON – The Vermont Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in seven cases at Vermont Law School in Oakes Hall on Wednesday, March 23, in the high court’s annual session at the state’s only law [...]
