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SCOV Law Blog: Contesting a civil license suspension
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Amy Davis. State v. Love, 2017 VT 75 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr This case considers when the court must hold a final...
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Judge presses attorneys on PFOA agreement
The former ChemFab plant in North Bennington is considered by state officials to be the source of PFOA contamination of groundwater supplies in a wide area around the factory. Photo by Ben...
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Rutland attorney heading to prison for seven months in tax case
BURLINGTON – A longtime Rutland attorney has been sentenced to seven months behind bars for understating income on his federal taxes. John Canney III, 63, was sentenced Friday afternoon in U.S....
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Trooper cleared of wrongdoing in gunpoint stop of rabbi and family
Tom Anderson, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger The head of the state Department of Public Safety and an advisory panel say a trooper has been...
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First EB-5 investors issued green cards after fraud charges
Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference Thursday. Photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerTen people have become the first defrauded...
View ArticleScott names new Family Division magistrate
MONTPELIER – Gov. Phil Scott has announced the appointment of Joseph Lorman as Family Division magistrate serving Rutland, Bennington and Addison counties. The Family Division of the Superior Court has...
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Officer sliced while making arrest fuels Burlington public safety debate
BURLINGTON — A weekend incident in which a police officer was cut on the hand while arresting a man armed with a knife has renewed debate over downtown safety and how the justice system should handle...
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Vermont native among Las Vegas shooting victims
A Vermont native who earned high school and college degrees in the state before becoming a middle school special education teacher in California is among those killed in the worst mass shooting in the...
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State to USCIS: Don’t shutter EB-5 center just yet
Mike Pieciak, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerVermont officials are asking the federal government to reconsider a decision to immediately shutter...
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Vermont to receive nearly $1 million from Mylan
EpiPen. Wikipedia image The state of Vermont will receive a portion of a $465 million national settlement against the pharmaceutical company that manufactures EpiPen. The state will receive about...
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Fired administrator to sue Rutland Town
The Rutland Town Selectboard meets recently before going into executive session to discuss a “personnel” matter. From left: Chris Kiefer-Cioffi, Joseph Denardo, Chairman Josh Terenzini, Mary Ashcroft...
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Man who had 16 convictions tossed out now faces twice the charges
Anthony Bridger, of Rutland, was arrested in 2009 on charges in connection with a burglary spree. Vermont State Police photo RUTLAND – A Rutland man who had 16 burglary convictions thrown out recently...
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Judge: Sorrell must sit for deposition in public records case
Former Attorney General William Sorrell. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger BURLINGTON — Vermont’s former attorney general has been ordered to answer questions under oath about the possible...
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Judge signs PFOA settlement agreement
This map by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation shows drinking water wells that tested positive for PFOA. Red icons indicate the highest concentrations of the chemical. BENNINGTON —...
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Brattleboro Retreat worker charged with child sexual assault of a patient
Brattleboro resident Robert Havens appeared with his attorney, Bettina Buehler, in Windham County Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Wednesday on charges of sexual assault, lewd and lascivious...
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Local officials told: When in doubt, err on side of transparency
Carl Andeer, a staff attorney with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, leads a presentation Thursday in Killington on the “Open Meeting Law and Social Media.” Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger...
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SCOV Law Blog: Use, not just ownership, determines taxable status
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Amy Davis. Vermont College of Fine Arts v. City of Montpelier, 2017 VT 12 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr Normally I try to pick...
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Cryptocurrency profiteer to pay millions in wire fraud settlement
Homero Joshua Garza (This story by Bob Audette was published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Oct. 6, 2017.) BOSTON — A former Brattleboro businessman has agreed to discontinue any illegal activity...
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Head of AG’s criminal division appointed to bench
Assistant Attorney General John Treadwell. Pool file photo by Stefan Hard/The Times Argus John Treadwell will leave his job as chief of the Vermont attorney general’s criminal division to become a...
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Rochester man charged in crash that killed his mother
Joseph L. Mailhiot, 40, of Rochester, appears in Rutland criminal court Friday. Pool photo by Robert Layman/for the Rutland Herald RUTLAND – A Rochester man is facing charges alleging he drove under...
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