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After second marathon debate, House OKs historic gun restrictions
Gun rights advocates watch the floor debate from the House gallery. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A bill that generated hours of debate on far-reaching changes to the state’s gun laws cleared the...
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AG’s office: Magazine limit in gun bill ‘largely unenforceable’
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee take testimony on gun legislation Wednesday. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger The Vermont Attorney General’s Office testified Wednesday before a Senate panel...
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Attorney General walks back office’s opposition to magazine limit
TJ Donovan gives testimony on gun legislation to the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year as David Scherr, far right, looks on. Photo by Colin Meyn/VTDigger Attorney General TJ Donovan said...
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UPDATED: Quiros says state EB-5 officials have ‘unclean hands’
Ariel Quiros at a groundbreaking for AnC Bio Vermont in May 2015. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Ariel Quiros, the former owner of Jay Peak Resort, has filed a motion claiming that the state is...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Arbitration initiation
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Eric Fanning. Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Co., LLC v. Extreme Contracting, LLC 2017 VT 44 If you can say that title five times fast I’ll...
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Gun rights group plans magazine handout in protest of law
Chris Bradley, president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, in the blaze orange vest, testifies earlier this month before the House Judiciary Committee in opposition to proposed gun...
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Lawsuit filed against founder of Hermitage Club
The Hermitage Club in Wilmington. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro ReformerEditor’s note: This story by Bob Audette was first published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Friday, March 30. WILMINGTON...
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Jay Peak receiver reaches $1.5M settlement with PeakCM
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 million deal between the court-appointed receiver for the Jay Peak Resort projects and PeakCM, one of the contractors for a series of developments at the resort....
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Inmate at Vermont prison takes own life
Southern State Correctional Facility. Photo by Phoebe Sheehan/VTDigger An inmate at Southern State Correctional Facility killed himself on Friday night. Nicholas Lynch, 37, met with mental health staff...
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High court will consider meaning of ‘attempt’ in Sawyer case
Vermont Supreme Court, File Photo by Roger Crowley/VTDigger The state’s highest court heard arguments on Tuesday in the case of the former Fair Haven High School student accused in a foiled plot to...
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UVM study confirms racial bias in car searches
A University of Vermont professor whose study of racial bias in car searches by Vermont police was criticized by law enforcement as methodologically flawed, has released a new study confirming her...
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Former Rutland woman sues city, cop for excessive force
Chelsea Smith-Wallett photographs injuries to her arm the morning after being taken into custody by Officer Ryan Ashe. Photo courtesy of Smith-Wallett RUTLAND – A former Rutland woman has filed a...
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Glenn Robinson’s law license suspended in sexual harassment case
Glenn Robinson, left, with his attorney Scott McGee. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Newport attorney Glenn Robinson’s license to practice law has been suspended by the board that regulates the...
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Vermont judge freezes Quiros’ assets in EB-5 case
Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A Vermont judge has agreed to a state bid to freeze the remaining assets of Jay Peak developer Ariel Quiros who recently...
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Vermont AG to ‘move on’ after lawyer empty-handed on child sex claims
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger State Attorney General TJ Donovan said this week that it would be an abuse of power to investigate an attorney’s claim that a...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Admitting to facts
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. In re Gabree, 2017 VT 84 Basic facts: Alexis Gabree was charged with two counts of grossly negligent operation with death...
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Experts differ over fatal blow in death penalty case in Vermont
Donald Fell BURLINGTON – Dueling experts provided conflicting testimony Friday over whether the fatal injuries suffered by a North Clarendon woman were inflicted by the man facing a capital trial over...
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Two entities inquire about Vermont prison contract
An inmate walks through the grounds of the state prison at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Conditions at the out-of-state facility were scrutinized later in the year, when multiple inmates who were housed...
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Judge agrees to freeze Quiros properties in Bahamas, Colombia in EB-5 case
Vermont Assistant Attorney General Kate Gallagher. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A Vermont judge has sided with the state in its bid to freeze the assets of Jay Peak developer Ariel Quiros,...
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UPDATED: Supreme Court says no ‘attempt’ in Jack Sawyer case
Jack Sawyer, 18, appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Feb. 16. Pool photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that the alleged actions of a former Fair...
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