Alexandria to pay $36M to settle condemnation 
By Peter Vieth
Published: June 14, 2010
Tags: Alexandria Circuit Court, Environmental, Million-Dollar Settlements
The Alexandria Sanitation Authority will pay $36 million to resolve a three-year condemnation battle over a 10-acre site marked for expansion of a sewage plant. The owners of the tract hoped to sell it for $42 million in 2006 to a developer who planned a high-rise retail and office project. The plan was scotched, the [...]
Dismissed party can’t be pulled back in appeal
By Peter Vieth
Published: May 10, 2010
Tags: Alexandria Circuit Court, Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr., Judge Lisa B. Kemler, Virginia Beach Circuit Court
A defendant dismissed from a general district court action can’t be pulled back into circuit court when a losing codefendant appeals, a Virginia Beach circuit judge has ruled. The new case creates a split in circuit court authority on the issue. In 2007, Alexandria Circuit Judge Lisa B. Kemler held the circuit court had jurisdiction [...]
Repair vehicle, luggage tug collide at Reagan airport – $145,000 Settlement
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 10, 2010
Tags: ADR, Alexandria Circuit Court, Personal Injury
This unique motor vehicle crash occurred within the baggage sorting area of Reagan National Airport on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Plaintiff was operating a yellow airport repair Cushman in the luggage distribution area, and the defendant was driving an airlines luggage tug headed outside to the air operations area to deliver the final baggage paperwork [...]
Salvadoran woman alleges assault by airport contractor – $100,200 Settlement
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: March 29, 2010
Tags: Alexandria Circuit Court, Negligence
Plaintiff, a 70-year-old grandmother who lives in El Salvador and frequently travels to the U.S. to visit her grandchildren, was sexually assaulted by a wheelchair operator at Dulles Airport who was taking her to the gate for her flight home to El Salvador on TACA International Airlines. The operator stuck his hand up the plaintiff’s [...]
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