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Saying “it’s difficult to conceive why a lawyer would so blatantly disregard the court’s clear order,” a Roanoke County Circuit Court dismisses a third amended complaint filed by plaintiff, which merely restates the same theories of nuisance plaintiff earlier stated ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr. Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Interpreting Virginia gaming statutes, a Spotsylvania County Circuit Court says that free spin machines operated by plaintiff business are illegal gambling devices. The parties both asked the court to interpret Va. Code §§ 18.2-325 and 18.2-325.1, as amended July 1, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge David H. Beck Spotsylvania Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A man who was injured when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle that failed to yield the right-of-way has UIM coverage under both his auto liability policy and his umbrella policy provided by the same company, says an Henrico ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Insurance Judge Gary Hicks Virginia Circuit Courts

In this suit by a divorce client alleging malpractice by her lawyer, a Fairfax Circuit Court denies the defendant lawyer’s motion to disqualify the client’s lawyer from representing both the client in the malpractice action, and her brother-in-law who paid ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Virginia Circuit Courts

When officers seized defendant as he began walking away from a posted public housing project, they recognized him from previous encounters, he was on private property, in a high-crime area, and had made furtive gestures, and the Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert P. Frank Search & Seizure Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s convictions for murder and malicious wounding as a principal in the second degree for an incident outside a convenience store when defendant’s father began shooting at two men after defendant accused them of striking ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Sam W. Coleman III Virginia Court of Appeals

A trial court did not err in denying defendant a continuance due to a delay in his discovery of a photo array used in a photo lineup, nor was the identification from the lineup inadmissible, and the Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert P. Frank Virginia Court of Appeals

Police had a reasonable, articulable suspicion to regard defendant as the perpetrator of an attack where a neighbor of the victim reported to police observing a man of similar description in the Laundromat, where he saw the victim’s bound feet ...

Tagged with: Search & Seizure Virginia Court of Appeals

An Augusta County man facing eviction from his foreclosed home brandished a novel legal weapon to try to halt the proceedings, to no avail. Daniel Taylor, who counts himself part of the “sovereign citizen” movement, told Circuit Judge Victor Ludwig ...

Tagged with: Real Estate

An injured motorist gets the rare benefit of underinsured motorist coverage from his $2-million umbrella policy under a recent opinion from a Henrico County judge. The unusual coverage decision is based on wording in an endorsement to the UIM policy. ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Insurance Judge Gary Hicks