SCOV Law Blog: Chain, chain, chain
The creditor with standing is the creditor with original negotiable instruments, made payable to the creditor, and the creditor need not prove how it came upon them.
Supreme Court continues consideration of public access to police records
The Vermont ACLU indicated that the Supreme Court sent a clear message that not all records maintained by a law enforcement agency are categorically exempt from public records access.
SCOV Law Blog: Buffalo wings
Basically, dad argued that the move to Buffalo was simply a droplet of water in an ocean of problems.
SCOV Law Blog: Insult to injury
Most sexually transmitted diseases, particularly the AIDS virus, do not exhibit outwardly manifest symptoms that would permit a probable-cause determination for obtaining a warrant.
SCOV Blog: No wrath to come
A 2011 law made clear that the General Assembly “always intended” to allow the State, under the proper circumstance, to bring charges against an adult who committed crimes as a juvenile.
Supreme Court denies Rutland Herald access to police records
“You are really in the dark as to what analysis is being applied. So what’s left is this sort of ‘trust me’ approach,” said Bob Hemley, counsel for the Herald.
Gilbert: Can’t cheer this court decision
Perhaps the most chilling part of the court’s decision is the justices’ insistence that Article 6 of our state constitution – the article that says the people have the right to hold all government officials accountable for their actions – is meaningless as a check on government abuse of power.
SCOV Law Blog: What are we going to request today, Bain?
Today’s case, if not one of the direct fruits of that work in the orchard, is at least a volunteer spring up as a byproduct of this tillage.
SCOV Law Blog: A marriage of lopsided means
At the time of divorce, the only significant asset that would count as marital property was Husband’s military pension, which does not kick in until 2013.
SCOV Law Blog: Treasures to trash
Anyone who has practiced law in Chittenden County in the past 20 years knows about the Chittenden Solid Waste case and the monumental amount of time it has taken to wend its way through the condemnation process.
