Essays
Appellate Musings on a Signal Day
- Posted 3/28/2024
Two Short Appellate Notes
- Posted 3/22/2024
Report on Two Important Appellate Items
- Posted 3/18/2024
Report on Appellate Developments
- Posted 3/9/2024
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 1/18/2024
Another Milestone Passes
- Posted 1/15/2024
Report on Current Appellate Events
- Posted 1/10/2024
The Delicate Art of Answering Questions
- Posted 1/5/2024
Notes on the Close of Another Year
- Posted 12/29/2023
Appellate Updates – The Holiday Edition
- Posted 12/19/2023
Update on Appellate Developments
- Posted 12/7/2023
Finally! An Ethics Code for SCOTUS
- Posted 11/13/2023
More Appellate Potpourri
- Posted 11/9/2023
Election 2023: What Hath Voters Wrought? (Appellate Edition)
- Posted 11/8/2023
What’s Going On?
- Posted 11/2/2023
Analysis of Edmonson v. Kite (1869)
- Posted 10/26/2023
Yet Another Peek Around The Landscape
- Posted 10/4/2023
Report on Appellate Doings
- Posted 9/21/2023
Note on Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/7/2023
Still Drumming Our Fingertips …
- Posted 8/24/2023
The Opinion Drought Continues
- Posted 8/18/2023
Sketches of Recent Appellate Decisions
- Posted 8/10/2023
A Return to Basic Math
- Posted 7/31/2023
Some Current Appellate Developments
- Posted 7/28/2023
A Thought Experiment: VANA Via AI?
- Posted 7/10/2023
Trust, and How to Squander It
- Posted 7/7/2023
2Q David-Goliath Index
- Posted 7/5/2023
Update on Appellate Happenings
- Posted 6/13/2023
Update on SCV Dockets
- Posted 5/19/2023
A Few Appellate Tidbits
- Posted 5/11/2023
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 5/3/2023
Notes on Current Appellate Developments
- Posted 4/26/2023
Notes on Appellate Developments
- Posted 4/18/2023
Two Quick Appellate Notes
- Posted 4/4/2023
Stare Decisis: Another Reason To Be Glad We’re Virginians
- Posted 3/9/2023
Four Quick Appellate Updates
- Posted 2/28/2023
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 2/3/2023
Several New Appellate Tidbits
- Posted 1/25/2023
This Week’s Appellate Developments
- Posted 1/12/2023
Quick Appellate Updates
- Posted 1/5/2023
Notes as the Year Ebbs
- Posted 12/15/2022
A Quick Peek Around The Landscape
- Posted 11/17/2022
Update on Recent Events
- Posted 11/1/2022
Interesting News on Appellate Dockets
- Posted 10/17/2022
3Q David-Goliath Index
- Posted 9/30/2022
Bond. Appellate Bond.
- Posted 9/26/2022
Update on Appellate Developments
- Posted 7/28/2022
A Note of Appreciation
- Posted 7/19/2022
A David-Goliath Index for SCOTUS? Who Knew?
- Posted 7/8/2022
Notes at the Year’s Halfway Mark
- Posted 6/30/2022
Legislature Fills Appellate Benches
- Posted 6/20/2022
An Appellate Glossary
- Posted 6/16/2022
Some Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 5/18/2022
Are There Fewer Dissents Now?
- Posted 5/13/2022
Some Appellate Observations
- Posted 4/28/2022
Notes from the Appellate Landscape
- Posted 3/31/2022
A Peak at Two Coming SCOTUS Quandaries
- Posted 3/10/2022
Update on Appellate Events
- Posted 3/4/2022
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 2/18/2022
Report on Appellate Developments
- Posted 1/4/2022
Weather Shutters Appellate Courthouses
- Posted 1/3/2022
A Quick Year-End Stats Report
- Posted 12/30/2021
Update On Chief Justice Lemons’s Announcement
- Posted 12/22/2021
Lemons To Step Aside; Goodwyn To Take SCV Gavel
- Posted 12/20/2021
Note on Appellate Court’s Holiday Closings
- Posted 11/24/2021
What, Oh, What Shall We Do About The Problem Child?
- Posted 11/18/2021
Some Appellate Miscellany
- Posted 10/22/2021
Note on Appellate Developments
- Posted 10/6/2021
More Appellate News and Notes (Already!)
- Posted 8/24/2021
CAV Issues Staggering Waiver Ruling
- Posted 8/24/2021
A Scan of the Appellate Landscape
- Posted 8/19/2021
Virginia’s Appellate Bench Swells
- Posted 8/12/2021
Justice Mims to Leave SCV Bench
- Posted 7/28/2021
Virginia’s Appellate Guild Sighs
- Posted 7/26/2021
Update on Appellate Events
- Posted 6/30/2021
On Professionalism, Part 2
- Posted 6/25/2021
Note on Cedar Point Nursery V. Hassid
- Posted 6/23/2021
The Courthouse Doors Start To Creak Open …
- Posted 6/11/2021
News and Notes from the Appellate World
- Posted 6/10/2021
Senator John Warner – The Appellate Connection
- Posted 5/28/2021
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 4/20/2021
Notes on an Eventful Week
- Posted 4/2/2021
A Look at Appellate Statistics – Past and Future
- Posted 3/18/2021
Report on Recent Appellate News
- Posted 3/21/2021
Note on Some Lesser-Known Appellate Names
- Posted 2/15/2021
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 2/12/2021
About publishing an appellate website or blawg
- Posted 2/4/2021
Note on the Pace of SCV Merits Rulings
- Posted 1/28/2021
Senate Committee Reports Appeal-of-Right Bill
- Posted 1/25/2021
Terror Threat Shutters Supreme Court, Court of Appeals
- Posted 1/18/2021
Notes on the Dawn of a New Appellate Year
- Posted 1/7/2021
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 11/23/2020
Appellate Dockets In A Pandemic
- Posted 11/18/2020
On Substantive Due Process
- Posted 11/5/2020
Two Interesting SCOTUS Appeals
- Posted 10/7/2020
Note on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/30/2020
Reports on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/3/2020
Notes on Appellate Developments
- Posted 7/24/2020
Note on Midyear Appellate Issues
- Posted 7/2/2020
Update on Appellate Courts’ Procedures
- Posted 6/24/2020
Update on Appellate Developments
- Posted 6/18/2020
Update on Recent Developments
- Posted 6/15/2020
News from the Appellate Milieu
- Posted 6/9/2020
News on the Appellate Scene
- Posted 6/1/2020
A Busy Day in the Appellate World
- Posted 5/14/2020
What a Difference 50 Years Make
- Posted 5/11/2020
A New Era at One First Street
- Posted 5/5/2020
The Post-Pandemic Appellate World
- Posted 4/21/2020
Latest Appellate Developments – Wartime Edition
- Posted 3/13/2020
Note on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 4/7/2020
Note on Lyle v. Ekleberry (1968)
- Posted 3/31/2020
Writ Argument Tomorrow? What To Expect; What To Do
- Posted 3/30/2020
News and Notes From a Troubled Landscape
- Posted 3/24/2020
Update on Judicial Emergency Procedures
- Posted 3/18/2020
Note on Court Closures (And Openings)
- Posted 3/16/2020
Surveying the Appellate Landscape
- Posted 3/6/2020
A Review of Old Wishes
- Posted 1/20/2020
Notes on a New Milestone
- Posted 1/14/2020
A Look at Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 1/7/2020
Notes on the close of 2019
- Posted 12/31/2019
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 11/8/2019
A Pioneer Steps Aside
- Posted 11/7/2019
Note on Recent Appellate Developments (Or Lack Thereof)
- Posted 10/1/2019
New David-Goliath Index
- Posted 7/15/2019
A Look Around the Appellate Landscape
- Posted 7/12/2019
Two Virginia-Centered Rulings From SCOTUS
- Posted 6/17/2019
SCOUTUS vs. SCV – Some Key Differences
- Posted 5/28/2019
Note on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 2/14/2019
How To Speak To An Appellate Court
- Posted 1/27/2019
A Quick Report on 2018 Statistics
- Posted 12/31/2018
Notes on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 12/1/2018
Report from the Appellate Summit (The Virginia One)
- Posted 9/21/2018
Emergency Appeals: a How-To Guide
- Posted 10/15/2018
Third-Quarter David/Goliath Index
- Posted 9/30/2018
How Fortunate Are We?
- Posted 8/14/2018
On Language and Diplomacy in the Appellate World
- Posted 7/18/2018
Notes on Recent (And Future) Appellate Developments
- Posted 7/31/2018
First-Half 2018 Statistics
- Posted 6/29/2018
SCOTUS Builds a Different Kind of Wall
- Posted 6/27/2018
News from the Appellate World
- Posted 6/14/2018
SCOTUS Reverses SCV in Fourth Amendment Case
- Posted 5/29/2018
SCOTUS Grants Cert in Uranium-Mining Case
- Posted 5/21/2018
Note on Appellate Developments
- Posted 5/11/2018
News and Notes from the Appellate World
- Posted 4/19/2018
Musings on a Quiet Appellate Landscape
- Posted 1/31/2018
Update on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 1/16/2018
What’s Up In The Appellate World
- Posted 11/10/2017
SCV Announces Writ-Procedure Change
- Posted 10/23/2017
Update on Current Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/19/2017
Preparing for Oral Argument the Virginia Way
- Posted 9/15/2017
SCOTUS Reverses Leblanc Ruling
- Posted 6/12/2017
A Look Inside the SCV’s 2016 Statistics
-Posted 3/23/2017
SCOTUS Vacates Gloucester School Judgment
- Posted 3/6/2017
Analysis of Washington v. Trump
- Posted 2/10/2017
The Top Appellate Stories of 2016
- Posted 12/31/2016
ROBOLAWYERS? REALLY?
- Posted 12/2/2016
Update on Recent (And Upcoming) Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/23/2016
Update on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 9/2/2016
Supreme Court Convenes “Road Shows”
- Posted 8/30/2016
Three Recent Low-Profile Rulings
- Posted 8/3/2016
A Fresh Look at Appellate Oral Argument
- Posted 7/6/2016
Some Appellate Odds and Ends
- Posted 6/29/2016
Analysis of McDonnell v. U.S.
- Posted 6/27/2016
When Preservation Becomes Painful
- Posted 6/1/2016
Notes on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 5/6/2016
The Stories Behind Those SCV Statistics
- Posted 4/20/2016
A Fresh Look at SCV Statistics
- Posted 4/19/2016
Every Appellant’s Dream Opinion
- Posted 4/11/2016
Update on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 3/12/2016
The Evolution of Appellate Oral Argument
- Posted 1/13/2016
A ‘Souvenir’ from the ABA Summit
- Posted 11/30/2015
Appellate Courts’ Holiday Closings
- Posted 11/24/2015
Appellate News and Notes
- Posted 11/10/2018
Update on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 10/19/2015
Two Upcoming Appellate Summits
- Posted 9/16/2015
Some Awful What-Ifs on the SCV Dispute
- Posted 8/21/2015
An Updated and Improved VANA
- Posted 8/14/2015
Political Squabble Produces a Judicial Mess
- Posted 8/10/2015
Governor Appoints Roush to Supreme Court
- Posted 7/27/2015
Some 2014 Statistics, Decoded
- Posted 9/10/2015
More on the SCV Deadlock: A Puzzle Solved
- Posted 9/5/2015
Supreme Court Responds to Political Dispute — Sort Of
- Posted 8/29/2015
Liberal or Conservative? SCV Voting Patterns
- Posted 7/13/2015
Another SCOTUS Blockbuster — Obergefell v. Hodges
- Posted 6/26/2015
Thoughts on King v. Burwell
- Posted 6/25/2015
Millette to Retire in July
- Posted 4/28/2015
SCV Justices in New Video
- Posted 6/19/2015
On the Death of Bill Zinsser
- Posted 5/13/2015
Does Noting an Appeal Divest the Trial Court of Jurisdiction?
- Posted 5/1/2015
Sometimes, Even an Exoneration Can Be Scary
- Posted 3/25/2015
New Rules – Here, and on the Horizon
- Posted 3/4/2015
Kelsey Elected to SCV
- Posted 1/21/2015
Important Appealabilty Ruling from SCOTUS
- Posted 1/14/2015
VANA at the Ten-Year Mark
- Posted 1/14/2015
The Passing of an Appellate Giant
- Posted 12/30/2014
Note on the Death of Judge Ney
- Posted 11/24/2014
Legislative News and Note on Rehearings
- Posted 11/11/2-14
Appellate Courts’ Holiday Closings
- Posted 11/10/14
Supreme Court Elects New Chief Justice
- Posted 8/18/2014
Update on Recent Appellate Developments
- Posted 8/13/2014
