博客:意见 & 观察
2024年5月8日
The Hampton Roads Region is home to a thriving and diverse population, including artists. 视觉艺术家使用无数的媒介, 包括油漆, clay, images, 以及大量相同的组合.A completed piece of artwork often goes beyond the ink on the canvas or the representation of the naked eye. Often, 这幅作品是数不清的工作的结晶, the interweaving of an artist’s skills and years of experience, and the...
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The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (“VFOIA”) If you work in local government within the Commonwealth, 你可能知道VFOIA. If not, it is prudent that you familiarize yourself with this legislation, as it instructs how public bodies should operate in various respects. VFOIA, originally enacted in 1968, seeks to promote governmental transparency. The General Assembly clearly expressed this sentiment, stating that VFOIA “ensures the people...
阅读更多Restrictive Covenants Prohibiting Short-Term Rentals Upheld by Virginia Court of Appeals
2024年3月7日
比如Air B等网站上列出的短租房&B and VRBO are becoming more and more common across the Commonwealth. 然而,短期租赁存在争议. On one hand, they offer vacationers or business travelers an alternative to traditional hotels. They also provide an income source to homeowners who can rent out their homes (or portions of their homes) for short periods of time. 另一方面,许多短租...
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Understanding the meanings of “employee” and “employer” under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”) is crucial in determining whether the Act applies. The Act only applies to businesses with three or more employees. If the injured worker was working for a business with less than three employees regularly in service, 他/她的伤害不在该法的赔偿范围内, 他/她不能享受工伤补偿福利. 某些业务...
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2023年12月5日
When homeowners find themselves dealing with the aftermath of a contractor's subpar or incomplete work, 这可能是一次伤脑筋的经历, as the home is often the biggest and most significant asset that they will ever own. Be it the construction of a new home or the renovation of an older home, residential construction projects typically force homeowners to either heavily tax their bank accounts or encumber themselves with loans.因此,关于...
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In June 2023, the United States Supreme Court released an opinion in Groff v. DeJoy that affects all employers who are faced with accommodating their employees’ religious practices and beliefs.Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants based on their religion. The law requires employers to reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs and practices, 除非这样做...
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In the ongoing effort to address the threat of climate change, the federal government has set an ambitious goal of achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by midcentury. While there is a concerted effort to reduce emissions from each sector of the economy, it is widely acknowledged that the goal cannot be achieved by emission reductions alone. Instead, some sort of “carbon capture” technology will need to be developed.碳捕获技术...
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你们可能还记得, roughly two years ago we witnessed an increase in the discussion surrounding “Name, Image, 和相似”(“零”)在大学体育. 催化剂来自具有里程碑意义的美国.S. 最高法院案件NCAA诉. Alston and the subsequent adjustments the NCAA made to its NIL and amateurism policies in response. Shortly thereafter, Virginia entered the discussions by passing its own NIL law for the Commonwealth. 详细讨论...
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你想过不寻常的生活吗? Have your own little piece of heaven out past where the paved road ends? If so, 你必须想办法到达那里, and not living on a publicly maintained road may involve the far less romantic reality of a private road maintenance agreement. If you need to cross someone else’s property to access your home, then you may be looking at obtaining an access or ingress/egress easement across that other...
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2023年9月6日
Most buyers and lenders engaging in commercial real estate transactions understand that title insurance is needed to protect their respective interest in the title to the property, but do not stop to think in detail about what is covered or, 也许更重要的是, what is not covered but could be with a few well-chosen policy endorsements. Some buyers and lenders who have certain endorsements on their checklists do not know or understand the large...
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