Gavin Grimm is a man who was denied the right to use the men’s restrooms in a public school in Virginia because the school classified him as a woman based on his birth designation. U.S. District Court Judge Judge Arenda l. Wright Allen held that this constituted discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §1681-1688, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational institution...

The Virginia Supreme Court held in Palmer v. R.A. Yancey Lumber Co., 803 S.E.2d 742 (Va. 2017) that an easement by necessity is not limited to uses existing at the time the easement was created by severance of the parcels creating a landlocked parcel with a need to traverse the servient estate to obtain access to the dominant...

In re Langlois/Novicki Variance Denial, 2017 VT 76, 2017 Vt. LEXIS 96, 2017 WL 3662437 (Vt. 2o17), the Vermont Supreme Court held that an owner cannot be compelled to remove a structure that violates the zoning law when the owner built the structure on the basis of advice given by the zoning admininstrator on its legality....