In Case You Missed It . . .

Here are a few miscellaneous items of note from the past week:

-In a W.D. Va. social security case, Judge Kiser points out one particularly interesting fact from the ALJ's determination:

The ALJ also noted that Plaintiff did not appear to be in any acute distress
despite the fact that he just drove 72 miles to the hearing without resting and
previously testified that he could only sit for 30 minutes at a time.

That won't engender any sympathy from the court.

- The Fourth Circuit addresses the issue of ripeness in a South Carolina election law case.

- The latest edition of the Harvard Law Review contains a good (and relatively brief) case note on the Supreme Court's decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.

- Judge Moon (W.D. Va.), in an unpublished decision, addresses the issue of whether a student loan from 1975 was discharged by a bankruptcy in 1983.