The latest news and cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia
">Value of trailer park is appeal issue Posted in Writs Granted on Sep 27th, 2010
When a Campbell County landfill was found responsible for groundwater pollution at a Rustburg mobile home park, a jury was asked to fix the damages the county owed to the landowners.
The jury’s $9-million award is the subject of an appeal granted last week by the Supreme Court of Virginia, according to The News & Advance.
The [...]
">Supreme Court grants 6 civil, 3 criminal appeals Posted in Civil Cases, Criminal Cases, Writs Granted on May 26th, 2010
Among the appeals granted recently by the Supreme Court of Virginia is a contention that a Fairfax County Circuit judge erred in allowing a corporate defendant to assert repudiation as a defense to its former president’s breach of contract claim, Robert P. Bennett v. Sage Payment Solutions Inc., Record No. 100199.
The president submitted a letter [...]
">Homeowners must arbitrate basketball goal dispute Posted in Civil Cases, Unpublished Orders on May 14th, 2010
A Loudoun County homeowners association was required to arbitrate a dispute with property owners over whether the owners could install a basketball goal on their property, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today in an unpublished order.
The property owners contended that the dispute was subject to arbitration under the plain language of the declaration for [...]
">Yet again, easement cases from the Supreme Court Posted in Civil Cases, Supreme Court Opinions on Apr 15th, 2010
For those of you who suspect that the Supreme Court of Virginia has never seen an easement dispute that it didn’t think merited its attention, we have three more examples today.
One, Hafner v. Hansen, involves what seems to be the court’s all-time favorite topic, an easement by prescription, or what a property owner hoped – [...]
">It’s not a cemetery unless it contains a dead body Posted in Civil Cases, Supreme Court Opinions on Apr 15th, 2010
The Supreme Court of Virginia split 4-3 today on the issue of just what constitutes a cemetery.
In a case from Rockingham County, the lower court and the Supreme Court majority held that a site can’t be a cemetery without the burial of a dead body. The circumstances in Shilling v. Baker suggest that’s much too [...]