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Although police investigating the source of two packages of drugs sent anonymously to a university employee were able to identify a latent palm print of defendant, the employee’s ex-husband, on one of the packages, and although a forensic document analyst ...

Where debtor seeks to have the court order debtor’s former insurance carrier, who has elected not to renew debtor’s policies because of a devastating fire at debtor’s business for which the carrier has denied coverage, to continue its coverage of ...

Where the city council voted on July 16, 1991, to rezone the landowner’s property from a mix of residential and office and industrial to conservation districts in order to preserve it from development, the 30-day time period under Va. Code ...

Where both husband and wife were named insureds on the auto liability policy, which also covered their college-age daughter, but only husband signed a form stating that he rejected the higher uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage limit, that rejection was not effective, ...

Where the trial court struck plaintiff county’s evidence that defendant’s dredging operation damaged an underwater sewer pipe because the trial court held that expert testimony was necessary to establish the standard of care in such a dredging operation, this was ...

There was sufficient evidence to convict defendant of larceny of goods from a Virginia Beach home where 1) the recently stolen goods were found in the motel room where defendant was staying; 2) defendant’s thumbprint was on a jewelry box ...

Where one of two employees of the business defendant attempted to rob testified that he struggled and fought with defendant during the attempt, and after finding a hammer in defendant’s pocket, he struck defendant in the head until he fell ...

A father may be entitled to a reduction in child support based on the new shared custody guideline passed in 1992. We hold that a substantive change to the statutory support guideline scheme, when combined with an earlier child support ...

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in transferring jurisdiction of these custody and visitation issues to South Carolina under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, Va. Code § § 20-125 et seq. We also hold that the trial ...

Where the police officer was justified in initially stopping defendant for speeding, but when defendant refused to consent to a search of the vehicle until the officer threatened to detain the vehicle for up to an hour to await the ...