Andy DeWayne Cumbo v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that appellate courts decide cases on the “best and narrowest” ground (quoting Luginbyhl v. Commonwealth, 48 Va. App. 58, 64 (2006) (en banc))
• noting that appellate courts should decide cases on the “best and narrowest” grounds (quoting Luginbyhl v. Commonwealth, 48 Va. App. 58, 64 (2006) (en banc))
• noting that the “preponderance of the evidence standard is an appropriate standard for an abuse and neglect proceeding” (quoting Wright v. Arlington Cty. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 9 Va. App. 411, 414, 388 S.E.2d 477, 479 (1990))
• “When a trial court’s judgment is made on alternative grounds, we need only consider whether any one of the alternatives is sufficient to sustain the judgment of the trial court and, if we so find, need not address the other ground.”
• limiting holding to “best and narrowest” ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).