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Wynn served on the Superior Court from 1972 to 1980. [1] In one of his best-known cases, Wynn presided over a landmark 1977 Chittenden Superior Court case in which the plaintiff, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident, won a $1.5 million judgment, which at the time was believed to be the largest in the state's history. [2]
Date Case Court Ruling 1779: Brakkee v. Lovell: Vermont Superior Court: Pompey Brakkee had been held as a slave by Elijah Lovell after slavery was made illegal in Vermont.Lovell failed to appear and Brakkee was awarded 400 pounds sterling.
The Vermont courts are established in the Vermont Constitution in sections 28-41 (Judiciary Department). The justices of the Vermont Supreme Court and judges of all lower courts except assistant judges and probate judges serve for six-year terms, which are renewable following a majority retention vote in the Vermont General Assembly.
A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law ...
On July 17, the Attorney General’s Office argued for the lawsuit to be thrown out because it fails to make a “valid legal claim” and is outside the jurisdiction of the Vermont Superior Court.
Side judges sit with the judge in Superior (civil cases and violations of traffic laws and municipal ordinances) and Family Court. There are Superior and Family Courts located in each of Vermont's 14 counties at their "shire town" or county seat. [3] [4]
In 1993, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the case In re B.L.V.B. that a woman could adopt her lesbian partner's natural children. The statute provided that an adoption terminates the rights of natural parents, unless the person adopting is the spouse of the child's natural parent. The Court decided that the statute did not intend ...
Case history; Prior: Judgment for plaintiff, Washington Superior Court, Vermont (2004); affirmed, 944 A.2d 179 (Vt. 2006); cert. granted, 552 U.S. 1161 (2008). Holding; Federal law does not pre-empt Levine's claim that Phenergan's label did not contain an adequate warning about the IV-push method of administration. Supreme Court of Vermont ...
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