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Although plaintiffs failed to comply with Va. Code § 8.01-290 in supplying certain information to the clerk’s office when they filed their first suit alleging fraud, this omission does not mean that the first suit was not properly “commenced,” so ...

Where the real estate sales contract provided that in the event of a breach, a party “may bring suit for specific performance” of the agreement against the defaulting party “or elect to bring suit for damages against the defaulting party,” ...

Although the parties’ property settlement agreement provided that the provisions regarding visitation and spousal support are mutually interdependent, such an arrangement is against public policy, and husband may not allege a breach of the visitation agreement as a basis for ...

Where the Alexandria City Council adopted a “Transportation Management Plan” ordinance (which would require a developer to submit a traffic impact study and traffic management plan along with its special-use permit application) without complying with a state statute that required ...

Where the district court refused to allow plaintiff parents to testify anonymously in their medical malpractice action against the fertility specialist who allegedly used his own sperm to artificially inseminate plaintiff wife while telling her he actually used the sperm ...

Where the parties’ contract for the sale of the plaintiff-company’s business was ambiguous as to what inventory items were included in the sale, that issue was properly put before the jury, and the district court erred in granting the defendant ...

Where the plaintiff’s duties as a brakeperson include starting a hopper car rolling down an incline to a dumper, which dumps the coal onto a conveyor belt, which conveys the coal to the hold of a ship, the plaintiff engages ...

Where defendants were arrested without a warrant based partly on a tip from an FBI agent’s aunt who was not an eyewitness to prior bank robberies, which the arresting officer suspected defendants of committing, and partly on first-hand observations of ...

Although the bankruptcy court employed a flawed analysis in determining that the credit union did not rely on debtor’s materially false financial statement in making a loan and that finding by the court is reversed, the district court nevertheless affirms ...

Where the defendant, a debt collection company, showed that any error in communication with the plaintiff debtor was unintentional and that the company maintained procedures to prevent error, and the plaintiff failed to challenge these procedures, any genuine dispute regarding ...