Virginia Lawyers Media, the publisher of Virginia Lawyers Weekly, has announced the inaugural class of “Influential Women of Law.” This new awards program honors women attorneys and judges for their excellent work on behalf of their clients, their commitment to ...
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January 14, 2019
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Gun admissible after stop and frisk in high-crime area
Where police saw defendant in a high-crime area and noticed a bulge under his jacket, they were justified in performing a Terry stop-and-frisk after he refused to remove his hands from his pockets. A firearm found during the search is ...
Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Search & Seizure Virginia Circuit Courts
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Sinkhole gives rise to condemnation claim
An oil-change company seeking to recover lost profits after access to its business was limited by the county’s alleged unreasonable delay in repairing a sinkhole has sufficiently pleaded an inverse condemnation claim. Overview Plaintiff PM Lube operates an oil change ...
Tagged with: Judge Jeanette A. Irby Loudoun County Circuit Court Real Property Virginia Circuit Courts
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Child’s name changed to omit mom’s maiden name
A mother’s petition to change her minor child’s name by replacing her maiden name with the stepfather’s surname, while retaining the natural father’s surname, is approved. The change serves the child’s best interests because she is in therapy to deal ...
Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard Virginia Circuit Courts
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Worker failed to link between work and his drowsiness, accident
The denial of benefits was upheld for an employee who was injured after he dozed off while driving home from a job site because he could not relate his drowsiness to working conditions and the resulting injury and accident. The ...
Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Prior drug conviction backed enhanced sentence
A defendant’s challenge to his enhanced sentence based on a prior drug conviction was rejected, as the court found that a plain reading of the law meant that any prior conviction under the statute triggered the enhanced punishment provisions. Background ...
Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on ACCA-enhanced sentence improper
An inmate who was sentenced as an armed career criminal will be resentenced because under the Armed Career Criminal Act he no longer had three convictions for a violent felony and/or a serious drug offense. Background Clinton Lee Rumley was ...
Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Claims against insurance carrier were contract matter
The court held that, to the extent the defendants failed to pay plaintiffs for covered damages, the claims sounded in contract, and could not be pursued in tort pursuant to Virginia’s “economic loss rule.” Background Plaintiffs Danville Commercial Industrial Storage ...
Tagged with: Insurance Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District
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January 12, 2019
Comments Off on Lack of branch office exempts bank from meeting
The court held that because the bank, as a mortgagee, did not have a “branch office” within 200 miles of a woman’s home, it was exempt from the requirement to offer or conduct a face-to-face meeting with her before it ...
Tagged with: Banking Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District
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