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A breach of contract claim brought by out-of-state homeowners against a Virginia interior designer has survived a motion to dismiss. The homeowners claimed the designer inflated expenses without their knowledge and that they had to spend tens of thousands of ...

Tagged with: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A federal court has rejected a public housing authority’s argument that an unsigned contract for security services was void due to the statute of frauds and the Virginia Public Procurement Act, or VPPA. Because there was no dispute about the ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

The denial of a trustee’s motion to compel arbitration pursuant to a clause in the trust has been affirmed by the Virginia Supreme Court. The court concluded that a trust is not a contract subject to mandatory arbitration under the ...

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

A federal criminal statute that prohibits the unlawful use of identification information may be applied to a defendant accused of tampering with a witness. Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss, ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District Witness tampering

The Virginia Court of Appeals has vacated a criminal restitution order after finding that the trial court abused its discretion by combining two insurance benefits to measure the value of property lost by an arson victim. The “record does not ...

Two men who wanted to testify as security experts in their own suit against an amusement park were barred from doing so after a federal judge found that they “are not qualified by experience to offer expert opinions, nor have ...

Where a sales contract contained a one-year limitations period for related causes of action, and the CEO of a party allegedly signed a document in which he admitted his company’s obligations under the contract and agreed to make monthly payments, ...

The Virginia Supreme Court has denied a newspaper’s request to unseal portions of a judge’s mandamus petition that included documents from her then pending matter before the Judicial Inquiry and Review Committee, or JIRC. “The confidentiality accorded to judicial disciplinary ...

Tagged with: Judges Judicial Inquiry and Review Committee Supreme Court of Virginia

A whistleblower’s retaliatory termination suit against her former employer has survived dismissal, but the judge limited her allegations to those presented in her complaint to the Office of the Inspector General, or OIG. The veterinarian plaintiff alleged that her government ...

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

A man who suffered multiple injuries in a work-related fall from a tree in 2014 saw his claim for medical benefits for a foot condition denied by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, or VWCC. The commission found “no causal connection ...

Tagged with: Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation