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A 1971 Virginia Court System Study Commission stated the need for a unified court system to handle appeals. [1] The Court of Appeals of Virginia was established on January 1, 1985, as an intermediate court of limited appellate jurisdiction, initially with ten judges, with an eleventh judge added in 2000.
Once a judgment has been entered by the court (or a decree has been issued, if the case is in equity), the court retains jurisdiction over the case for 21 days. This period is referred to as the time for which the case is "in the breast of the court", and during this time the court has complete discretion to suspend, vacate, or amend its ...
G.R. No. 180643 is the case docket number originally assigned by the Supreme Court at the time the action was filed with the Court (G.R. stands for General Register) [15] [16] 25 March 2008 is the exact date the decision of this case was promulgated; 549 is the volume number of the Supreme Court Reports Annotated where the case may be found
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The 1902 Constitution vested the SCC with three forms of power—judicial, legislative, and executive. The SCC acts as a court of record and holds formal hearings when warranted. It can enforce its orders by fines or contempt citations. There is a right of appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court from any SCC decision.
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[1]: 21 It was signed into law by President Donald Trump on August 23, 2017, and was one of several VA reforms moved through the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs that year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The law removed three time-consuming steps in the appeals process: the issuance of a Statement of the Case (SOC), the filing of a VA-9, and the ...