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A Norfolk U.S. District Court overrules defendants’ objections to its order granting plaintiff’s motion for execution sale and setting forth a proposed procedure for conducting a judicial sale of the property, modified to account for defendants’ objections to a sale ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A family trust that owns five single-family homes in Virginia Beach was an undisclosed principal to a contract with first, one realty company and then its corporate successor, for maintenance of the properties, and the trust, by plaintiff, its agent, ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

An easement granted by plaintiffs’ predecessor only gave VEPCO the right to install and improve “one line of poles” for transmitting electric power, and the Norfolk Circuit Court overrules VEPCO’s demurrer to plaintiffs’ challenge to VEPCO’s intent to apportion the ...

Tagged with: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff’s suit alleging the owners of property that shares a common wall allowed their tenants to raise the level of their backyard with fill dirt by 12 inches and bury a rain water downspout, causing flooding of plaintiff’s home, cannot ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

In this litigation involving a nursing home lease, assignment of the lease and nonpayment of rent, in which the district court awarded plaintiff owner $2.74 million for breach of the lease and abandonment of the nursing home, the lessor did ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Roger L. Gregory Real Estate

A 1981 Virginia statute that governs ownership of mine voids is not retroactive and does not apply to plaintiff’s mine voids, which she acquired under a deed executed in 1887; the Richmond U.S. District Court says plaintiff has standing to ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In the wake of plaintiff Dragas Management Corporation’s $4 million default judgment against defendant Taishan Gypsum Company for damages incurred in the remediation of homes built with defective Chinese drywall, the Norfolk Circuit Court grants plaintiff’s show cause motion pursuant ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Products Liability Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a power company easement on plaintiff’s property dates from 1958 and cellular telephone antennas were added to a tower in 2002, six antennas were replaced in 2012 and T-Mobile added underground fiber optic cable in the same area that ...

Tagged with: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

The 4th Circuit affirms summary judgment for a lender in plaintiff’s suit alleging damages from her inability to refinance her home because of a 2013 lien on her home after defendant lender failed to file a certificate of satisfaction in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge G. Steven Agee Real Estate

The 4th Circuit vacates dismissal of plaintiff’s suit against a substitute trustee and remands to allow her to proceed on her suit alleging defendants foreclosed on and sold her homestead in violation of the automatic stay triggered by her Chapter ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Paul V. Niemeyer Real Estate