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A circuit court judge granted a defendant’s demurrer in a case over a real estate sales contract after finding both parties to the contract mistakenly believed the defendant seller was the only person to have title to the property the ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

The Hampton Circuit Court has upheld the terms of a separation agreement under which a military veteran agreed to indemnify his former spouse for any losses to her share of his gross retired pay. Judge Bonnie L. Jones found that ...

Tagged with: Hampton Circuit Court Judge Bonnie L. Jones Virginia Circuit Courts

As attorneys involved in representing people accused of committing crimes, naturally we are both acutely aware of several provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The Fifth Amendment provides that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a ...

Even though a party didn’t have to pay her own attorneys’ fees, she had incurred reasonable expenses that could be awarded as sanctions, the Virginia Supreme Court has held in a matter of first impression. “We conclude that regardless of ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Sanctions Supreme Court of Virginia

A former detective who admitted to altering multiple search warrants could not be prosecuted for malfeasance in office, as the charge is not a crime under Virginia law, a 12th Circuit Court judge has ruled. Robert W. Sprouse, a now-former ...

A property insurer that refused to make advance payments after a devastating fire at a seafood processing plant and allegedly coerced the claimant into cooperating with an investigation into third parties can be sued for fraud. In Sustainable Sea Products ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The plaintiff in a long-running dispute over the management and distribution of the assets of a bankrupt partnership must pay the defendant’s legal fees, a federal judge has ruled. In this case, the plaintiff’s amended complaint “is baseless on all ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Sanctions U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a takings case involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, a federal court has excluded a landowner’s experts who sought to establish the fair market value of her condemned land and the expected depreciation of her remaining land. Judge ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

A federal contractor’s claim that a whistleblower breached a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA, by disclosing the company’s confidential information to media outlets has survived dismissal. The contractor alleged that the whistleblower’s disclosures caused it reputational and financial harm. The whistleblower ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas J. Cullen NDA U.S. District Court - Western District Whistleblower

On the second floor of the Henry A. Vanover Judicial Center in Clintwood sits a room stocked with books and toys for the Dickenson County Courthouse’s youngest visitors. The children’s waiting room, described as a “first of its kind” project ...