Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

The court concluded there was sufficient evidence to support the convictions for sex trafficking and related drug counts. However, as a result of a Fourth Circuit decision issued after trial and post-trial briefing, the court granted the defendant’s motion for ...

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

A school superintendent who allegedly insinuated the former Chief Technology and Information Officer, or CTIO, engaged in dishonest conduct will face claims for defamation and denial of due process for failing to provide the employee a hearing before the information ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a pipeline was denied permits for construction based on zoning regulations that had been enacted so that the county could participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, the regulations did not thereby achieve the status of federal law, and ...

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

Employees who were laid off when the manufacturing facility they worked at was closed and claimed that their employer failed to provide adequate notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act could bring a class action suit against their ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A debtor in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case was unable to recover garnished wages as an avoidable preference even though the wages were turned over to the judgment creditor within the 90-day preference period because the wages were garnished and ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Paul M. Black U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Although the debtor admittedly made false statements and breached a deed of trust, he did not act with the requisite fraudulent intent and therefore the civil judgment is discharged. Background James Young filed a voluntary Chapter 7 petition in this ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Paul M. Black U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Where defendant did not object when his trial date was moved beyond the statutory five-month speedy trial period, the delay was attributable to defendant and his convictions are affirmed. Background Young was arrested for robbery, held without bond and later ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Cleo E. Powell Supreme Court of Virginia

Where a wife’s counsel withdrew prior to an equitable distribution hearing and the wife was given 11 months to retain new counsel before such hearing was held, the denial of her request for additional discovery, made more than six months ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a property settlement agreement provided that the wife was entitled to one-half of the monthly disability and retirement benefits her husband was receiving, and the amount of the husband’s monthly benefit increased after the divorce became final, the wife ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a marital separation agreement provided that a defaulting party was responsible for any costs, including but not limited to attorneys’ fees that the prevailing incurred in enforcing the provisions of the agreement, the court did not have discretion to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals