Yes, this picture fitsBy Andy DelaneyI’m slacking on keeping this site updated. It’s gone from weekly, to monthly, to pretty-close-to quarterly updates this year. Sure, I’m busy. We all are . . . but I’ll strive to do
Continue Reading The you-must-be-really-bad-at-counting-to-call-this-a-monthly(ish)-update Update
By A different kind of courtingAndy Delaney Here we go again. I apologize to our faithful readers that we haven’t been cranking out the full summaries lately. If you’d like to try your hand at summarizing cases and help with the
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This is not a SCOV . . . really. By Andy DelaneyOnce again, we have a month-plus of opinions to run through in a haphazard manner. Let’s get to it. No opinions issued the week of April 23, 2021. I know
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By Andy DelaneyWhile I write these up weekly, I don’t always post them. Hence, once again, we have a month and change to run through today. Let’s get to it. One opinion this past week. It’s one of those tragic
Continue Reading Monthly-ish Update: February 2021 +
No question many of us would like to be here right nowState v. Spencer, 2021 VT 5 By Elizabeth Kruska Common occurrence: a person charged with an offense gets me on the blower and says something to the effect
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Put it on the booksBaron v. McGinty, 2021 VT 6By Andy DelaneyThis decision is a civil procedure case cloaked as an appeal from a child-support magistrate’s decision. If I’d known how important civil procedure was going to
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Lake AccessKnaresborough Enterprises, LTD v. Dizazzo, 2021 VT 1 By Elizabeth Kruska The facts of this case aren’t especially important to the reason for the appeal. Briefly, though, the dispute between the parties had to do with use
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Betcha didn’t see the different picture comin’!By Andy DelaneyWell, here we are a full month into 2021. Time sure flies when . . . uh. Never mind. Two opinions on the 29th, both in the criminal-law realm. First up, we
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Doggie Freakout DevicesGreen Mountain Fireworks v. Colchester, 2020 VT 64 By Elizabeth Kruska Unpopular take: I don’t especially like fireworks. I never really understood them. I often went to see them on the Fourth of July with friends
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Easement? I don’t need no stinkin’ easementKnaresborough Enterprises, LTD v. Dizazzo, 2021 VT 1By Andy DelaneyThere’s nothing like lake access to get neighbors’ hackles up. This opinion hails from the shores of Lake Champlain. Plaintiff’s predecessor-in-interest had granted defendants’
Continue Reading Arbitrary Arbitration Agreement?
