Conspiracy claims survive in mining business dispute 
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 14, 2013
Tags: Buckingham County Circuit Court, Corporations, Judge Jane Marum Roush
With a petition for appeal pending at the Supreme Court of Virginia and a two-week trial scheduled for June in Buckingham County, conflict over a closely held family mining business is simmering on two fronts. While the Supreme Court considers whether to weigh in on the court-ordered breakup of The Disthene Group Inc., the trial [...]
Relief for Oppressed Minority Shareholders
By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 20, 2012
Tags: Buckingham County Circuit Court, Corporate, Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr., Virginia Circuit Courts
In this litigation involving a 67-year-old closely held mining business that the Buckingham County Circuit Court ordered to be broken up and parceled out after a finding of the company’s oppression of minority shareholders, the court makes further orders to resolve the dispute. The court makes the following rulings. The court does not find Gene [...]
Minority in family mining company overcomes majority ‘oppression’
By Peter Vieth
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: Buckingham County Circuit Court, Corporations, Judge Jane Marum Roush
A 67-year-old closely held mining business may be broken up and parceled out under a judge’s “drastic” remedy for the company’s oppression of minority shareholders in a family feud that has played out as a courtroom corporate drama. Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush concluded the Disthene Group Inc. – which owns a profitable kyanite [...]
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