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The trial court did not err in sentencing defendant for cocaine sales under the voluntary sentencing guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, rather than the guidelines in effect a the time the crime was committed; because application of ...

The trial court orders the putative father to pay temporary child support, subject to his question as to paternity and the blood tests which will be ordered by the court, with the costs to be borne by the father. Until ...

Although plaintiff hospital contends that the Virginia State Health Commissioner exceeded his authority in accepting the application of another hospital to participate in a certificate of public need batching process regarding that hospital’s application for an exemption from a COPN ...

Where plaintiff alleges defendant killed plaintiff’s Gyr/Peregrine Falcon, an endangered species under state and federal law, and that this action was negligence per se under state and federal statutes, defendant’s demurrer to this claim is sustained. Plaintiff was licensed to ...

Where the parties acquired the marital residence as joint tenants prior to their marriage, they will still own the residence as joint tenants after the divorce, and either party may take whatever action deemed advisable to assert his or her ...

Where the wholesale floor planner for the automobile dealership established that the dealer, who went out of business in April 1991, had sold 15 vehicles to consumers who had financed their purchases with plaintiff credit corporation, and defendant floor planner ...

Where claimant’s orthopedic surgeon testified that to a reasonable medical certainty claimant’s carpal tunnel syndrome was more likely caused by her work sewing waistbands in jogging suits rather than by any degenerative change, previous tendinitis, medication or previous employment, and ...

Although defendant made his alleged threats to murder the Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted him for drug crimes in the Southern District of West Virginia while defendant was incarcerated in a federal correctional institution in Ashland, Kentucky, the proper venue ...

Where the employer, a savings & loan association now in receivership administered by the Resolution Trust Corporation, earlier entered into certain deferred compensation agreements to create “rabbi” trusts with certain senior management employees as recipients, the district court did not ...

Where the findings recommended in the defendants’ presentence reports were adopted by the district court to support its order of restitution, but where the presentence reports did not contain recommended findings (1) as to the defendants’ individual or families’ financial ...