Lanthier, 53, of Orwell is hitting the ground running. She will undergo some judicial training and is hiring her staff, which includes law clerks and a judicial assistant.

The roll call vote was 55-42 and ended shortly after 6  Wednesday evening.

After its opinion earlier this summer that shielded schools and vaccines from all state law claims for administering an experimental vaccine to a 6-year-old boy against his parents’ express directives, the Vermont Supreme Court Friday rejected plaintiffs’ motion to re-present their constitutional claims to the Court for reconsideration.

The court case stems from a ski accident on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Richard Grajeda, then 21, was heading down a beginner’s trail at Okemo about 10 a.m. when he fell.

The Vermont Supreme Court has cleared a father of allegations of child abuse regarding his attempt to move his children to CA during 2022 COVID-19 shutdowns.

The decision deals with the expiration of the repose period, which is similar in concept to the limit to how long a person can claim injury from a past event.

Lanthier, a public defender for more than 20 years, oversees a handful of lawyers who represent indigent defendants in Rutland County.

The ongoing legal battle has generated considerable interest because the Foundation and Holdings play a major role in the economy of the Woodstock region.

Five months after the brain matter of a Middlebury highway flagger splattered her clothing, the plaintiff was diagnosed with PTSD.

A leading public defender, a law school professor and a longtime federal prosecutor are in the running to become the next U.S. District Court Judge in Vermont.

“This is beyond bewildering, and beyond frustrating for the men and women of patrol who responded to a bar-closing shooting in the heart of our downtown, for the detectives who spent their weekend investigating and assembling a case for arraignment, and, most of all, for the victim who had a firearm pointed at his chest at close range and was shot in the arm,” BPD Chief Murad said.

Lawyers of Richard Grajeda III, 24, of Westbury, N.Y. attempted to have judge force payment despite jurors denying the claim in court.

Vermont’s diversity chief, the president of VPIRG, and a Planned Parenthood lawyer are on the selection team for the next U.S. federal judge.

The five men and five women on the jury cleared Okemo of any negligence.