By Andy DelaneyTwo opinions on April 18, 2025: one about jurisdiction and one about partition and ouster. We’ll start with jurisdiction. In 2019, respondent pled guilty to assault and robbery. In 2023, she filed a motion in the criminal division…

I call this the “McDonald’s burger-shifting analysis” By Andy DelaneyI might know enough about employment law to sound like I know what I’m talking about. But I’m no expert. Robert Caldwell was Champlain College’s chief fundraiser from January 2017 until September…

By Andy DelaneyA lone opinion this Friday. On a personal level, I’ve never “gotten” prenuptial agreements. From my perspective—not that of SCOV Law or anyone associated with SCOV Law—marriage should be based on trust and love. If you don’t implicitly…

By Andy DelaneySnow on a Saturday morning at the end of March is just
wrong.

This week’s story is one of those stranger-than-fiction
cases. Briefly, defendant married a woman named Lori and adopted her two
daughters. In 2000, defendant…

 By Andy DelaneyNo “opinions” this week but there were three published entry orders, one each on the 12th, 13th, and 14th. The big difference between a published entry order and an opinion, to the best of my knowledge,…

This joke is so nerdy that it may require a reverse image searchBy Andy DelaneyI used the date this entry order issued for a few reasons. If you think it’s just because I’m lazy and it’s a Sunday with a lost…

By Andy DelaneyTwo opinions on Friday. Let’s get to it.  First up we have a tiff between Travelers and the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR). Travelers wanted records from DFR about Middlesex Assurance Company, a Vermont captive insurer. If you…