By Andy DelaneyWell, I take last week off, thinking SCOV won’t issue anything on the 30th: it’s a holiday weekend. So, yeah. Guess, I’d better not start any psychic hotlines. Five opinions this immediate past week and two the week before that, which means seven super-short summaries. You could call this the “Delaney-running-with-scissors” version of
Not much funny hereBy Andy Delaney Only one decision this week. It issued on the 14th and is an entry order on a hold-without-bail order, or as we sometimes call it here, a HWOB order. Defendant was busting into his ex’s and her boyfriend’s place, when they called the police (because they saw defendant on their
By Andy DelaneyTwo opinions this week. First up, we take a brief foray into clinical-mental-health licensing and how the Board of Allied Mental Health Practitioners deals with coursework that doesn’t meet its requirements at first blush. Ms. McNamer applied for a counseling license. Because she did not have a degree from an accredited school, she needed
This has to be one of my favorite I-am-not-impressed photos everBy Andy DelaneyThis week, SCOV cranked out five opinions and posted an entry order from a week and a half ago. As far as published opinions go, this week might be the busiest of the year thus far. It could be that the summer
By Andy Delaney Two opinions this Friday: one about workplace-safety violations and one about negligent unauthorized vaccine administration at school. We’ll start with the workplace-safety case. A now-former employee called in some violations at a job site. A Vermont Occupational Safety & Health Administration (VOSHA) inspector came to the job site, interviewed a supervisor, inspected the
What do the lines mean anyway?By Andy DelaneyThree things from this week’s decision on workers’ compensation in Vermont: (1) coverage is broad; (2) it’s remedial in nature; and-or-but (3) coverage is not without limits. As will happen often enough in Vermont, Mr. Burnett worked on both sides of “the river.” He was hired in New
By Andy DelaneyI have a lot of things to do today, so you’re going to get an even-more-abbreviated-version-than-usual post this week. Adding to my laziness brevity this week is that this is a conditional use permit and that’s not something I’m particularly conversant in. Short version: Burton wants to convert a big ol’ building it
By Andy DelaneyHonestly, I expected SCOV to take Friday off this week, due to Independence Day and all. And for all I really know, SCOV did, but two opinions issued on Friday the 5th anyway. First up, we have a decision dealing with the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) and two hospital systems appealing GMCB’s
By Andy DelaneyThree decisions this past week. First we have a decision about a wastewater permit. Vermont follows a first-in-time approach to wastewater permitting, which means in a practical sense that if a wastewater system encroaches in some way on a neighboring property, it might still be allowed so long as it’s not interfering with
By Andy DelaneyThree lengthy decisions this week, not one unanimous. First, we deal with what constitutes “protected activity” under Vermont’s State Employee Whistleblower Act. In a nutshell, plaintiff was fired from his position as superintendent of Southern State Correctional Facility (SSCF) for misconduct after he reported a situation where the State would miss significant savings
