Virginia Real Estate Commission v. Bias

How courts have described this case

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

• real estate broker, guilty of self-dealing, had responsibility as agent of seller to communicate all offers regardless of value
• Commission’s ruling on violation of one of its own regulations entitled to deferential administrative standard of review
• a broker’s duties include “an obligation to disclose to the principal all facts within his knowledge which are or may be material, or which might influence the principal in deciding upon a course of action. ”
• “[T]he court may reject the agency’s findings of fact ‘only if, considering the record as a whole, a reasonable mind would necessarily come to a different conclusion’.” (quoting Consolidated Edison Co. v. N.L.R.B., 305 U.S. 197, 229 (1938))
• broker has absolute duty to convey offer promptly to seller
• “The phrase ‘substantial evidence’ refers to ‘such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.’ ” (quoting Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB, 305 U.S. 197, 229, 59 S.Ct. 206, 217, 83 L.Ed. 126 (1938))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).