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 [...]
License revoked for lawyer with lunchbox full of cash
By Alan Cooper
Published: January 6, 2011
Tags: Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr., Lawyer Discipline, Virginia Beach Circuit Court
A three-judge panel has revoked the law license of a former associate at Stallings & Bischoff PC who showed up with a Tidewater Tides lunchbox filled with $30,000 in cash and uncashed checks after the firm discovered he was not following its procedures for court-appointed work. Edward Ruffin House worked in the Suffolk office of [...]
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 [...]
Real Estate – Foreclosure Sale – Trustee Commission
By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 4, 2010
Tags: Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr., Real Estate, Virginia Beach Circuit Court
In this 2007 decision on a matter of first impression, a Virginia Beach Circuit Court rejects a trustee’s 5 percent commission of $20,450 for sale of a property at foreclosure, and instead authorizes a “reasonable” fee of $9,180. Wells Fargo Bank held a deed of trust on a property located at 401 Princess Anne Road, [...]
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