Andrew T. Bodoh, Esq.
Bar Admissions:
- Virginia – 2010
Court Admissions:
- All Virginia Courts
- United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- United States District Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Education:
- 2007 – Bachelor of Arts – History & Political Science
- Summa Cum Laude
- Christendom College
- Front Royal, Virginia
- 2010 – Juris Doctorate
- Magna Cum Laude
- Ave Maria School of Law
- Naples, Florida
Notable Cases:
- UNDISCLOSED – Settlement in excess of $1 Million
- Liverman v. City of Petersburg, 2015 U.S. Dist. Lexis 120323 (Sept. 9, 2015)
- Denton v. City Council for the City of Hopewell, 2015 Va. Cir. LEXIS 191 (Dec. 21, 2015)
- State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Franklin Ctr., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47051 (E.D. Va. Apr. 4, 2014)
- Smith v. Commonwealth, 286 Va. 52, 54 (Va. 2013)
- Wagner v. Land, Record No. 121869 (Va. S. Ct., 2013) (unpublished)
- Harmon v. Ewing, 285 Va. 335, 336 (Va. 2013)
- Artis v. Commonwealth, Record No. 018-13-2 (Va. Ct. App., 2014) (unpublished)
| Case | Issue | Outcome |
| Ewing v. Harmon | Law enforcement records and technical violations of FOIA | After Supreme Court review, prevailed in part. |
| Barrett v. Bogley | FOIA application to Humane Investigators | Circuit Court rules FOIA does not apply |
| Artis v Dixon | Use of federal exemption | Settled – Attorney fees paid |
| Liberty Guard Inc. v. City Council for the City of Fredericksburg | Emergency injunction in General District Court to prevent closed session | Injunction denied |
| Cambell v. Hoch & Cambell v. Madison County Board of Supervisors | Failure to timely respond, excessive costs | Costs reduced |
| Everett v Town of Waverly | Failure to timely respond, use of various exemptions | Mandamus issued for documents, costs awarded, penalty suspended |
| Roberts v. Virginia Lottery | Failure to provide complete documents, use of work product exemption | Court permits use of exemption, but orders public records not previously supplied must be provided |
| Denton v. Hopewell City Counsel | Closed meeting to discuss elections | Court determines exemption does not apply |
Publications:
Editorial – Washington Post – July 8, 2022 – “Richmond will never be the same“
Letter to the Editor, “Change Virginia’s FOIA to increase transparency,” Wash. Post (Sept. 28, 2015), available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/change-virginias-foia-to-increase-transparency/2015/09/28/076178fa-63b1-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html
Op. Ed., “Bill might dilute FOIA’s impact,” Daily Press (January 15, 2015), available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/change-virginias-foia-to-increase-transparency/2015/09/28/076178fa-63b1-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html
The Road to Due Process: Evolving Constitutional Language from 1776 to 1789, 40 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 103 (2018)
***********quoted in Walker v Commonwealth_2023 Va. LEXIS 24
Liberty Is Not Loco-Motion: Obergefell and the Originalists’ Due Process Fallacy, 40 Cambell L. Rev. 481 (2018), https://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1657&context=clr
Terminating Hope: Defensive Medicine in Cases of Poor Prenatal Diagnoses, 14 Liberty L. Rev. 1 (2019), https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=lu_law_review
Biography
Media Profile
Andrew Bodoh has distinguished himself as a creative litigator in cases involving Constitutional law and civil rights, insurance coverage, appeals, and defamation. He also regularly represent citizens in cases involving the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which governs citizens’ access to public records and public meetings in Virginia. He is the author of A Virginian’s Guide to FOIA (2015).
Andrew Bodoh is a 2010 graduate of Ava Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida. He graduated Magna Cum Laude. During his senior year in law school, he was Editor and Chief of the Ava Maria Law Review. Andrew also distinguished himself as the best oral advocate in the 2010 intramural trial competition.
After passing the Virginia bar exam, practiced in Fredericksburg, Virginia before joining the law firm of Thomas H. Roberts & Associates, P.C., where he represented clients in civil and criminal law as well as in bankruptcy matters.
Mr. Bodoh is married with three children.
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