The latest chapter in the troubled saga of the Koger Management Group is not good news for its community association clients. As reported by the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, the company’s former head is seeking to change his bankruptcy status from ...
Tagged with: Real Estate
Read More »The Lexington Fire Department has taken the City of Lexington to federal court over the disposition of a bequest. As the Roanoke Times reports, the suit brings to light a dispute over who controls the firefighters’ budget. Volunteer firefighters apparently ...
Tagged with: Civil Procedure
Read More »The latest lawsuit over development in Blacksburg concerns a proposed Sonic drive-in, according to the Roanoke Times. A company fighting to build a big-box retail store (think Wal-Mart) in the college town claims that local authorities rejected the Sonic as ...
Tagged with: Land Use & Zoning Real Estate
Read More »Lawyers involved in the court fight over Episcopal Church property in Virginia are girding for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia now that the critical issues in the trial court have been resolved in favor of the breakaway ...
Read More »How far can Virginia local governments go in requiring developers to build environmentally-friendly buildings? At least one Virginia county is deliberately pushing the legal limit to force builders to “go green.” Arlington County officials now require every developer seeking planning ...
Read More »Lost in the flap about a white supremacist facing federal contempt charges was the substance of the opinion that brought the charges to the surface. Now available on the Western District Web site, Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski’s opinion explains ...
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Read More »A Pennington Gap dentist convicted of defrauding Medicaid is the beneficiary of a new interpretation of the federal money laundering statute. U.S. District Judge James P. Jones reads the recent Santos opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court as requiring a ...
Tagged with: Criminal Federal Courts
Read More »Scott Hoover has made good on his threat to sue the state over alleged fraud in sales of scratch-off lottery tickets. The business professor’s lawsuit, filed in Richmond Circuit Court by Roanoke attorney John Fishwick, claims that the state lottery ...
Read More »Add Front Royal to the list of Virginia localities where the Board of Zoning Appeals was accused of being too generous. Warren County Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp this week nullified a variance that would have allowed a tall addition ...
Tagged with: Land Use & Zoning Real Estate
Read More »Add Front Royal to the list of Virginia localities where the Board of Zoning Appeals was accused of being too generous. Warren County Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp this week nullified a variance that would have allowed a tall addition ...
Tagged with: Land Use & Zoning Real Estate
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