Dismissal Denied for Defamation Claims 
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Published: January 7, 2013
Tags: Judge Thomas D. Horne, Loudoun County Circuit Court, Tort, Virginia Circuit Courts
A Loudoun County Circuit Court denies a plea in bar filed by defendants to plaintiff’s defamation suit, based on plaintiff’s allegations that defendants arranged for photographs of plaintiff being arrested for embezzlement and for further dissemination of those photos, even though plaintiff, their former residential property manager, was acquitted of the alleged embezzlement.
Plaintiff Deanne Hubbard ...
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