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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

A borrower may sue defendant note holder for alleged breach of contract for delayed mailing of notice of default that gave the borrower 25, not the required 30 days, to cure the mortgage default, the Richmond U.S. District Court holds. ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit by an LLC formed to develop real estate in Prince William County against two related entities that received funds transferred by the LLC, the Supreme Court of Virginia upholds a plea in bar asserting appellant LLC’s claims ...

Tagged with: Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A property owner who alleges her neighbors have caused rain and storm run-off from their adjacent lots to drain onto her property, causing standing pools of water and mosquito breeding, has failed to state claims for trespass, nuisance or negligence ...

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

A 1936 deed distributing a dissolved corporation’s large tract of real estate in the White Marsh Beach area of Hampton used metes and bounds and stationary markers to identify the location of an express easement as running “Along Present Mean ...

Tagged with: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A husband could unilaterally transfer his ownership interest as a tenant by the entirety in a Bluefield home to wife to create a fee simple estate in wife, which she in turn could transfer to a trust; the Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A Norfolk Circuit Court says plaintiff purchaser of a single-family residence may sue defendant real estate agent for the seller and her own buyer’s agent for failure to disclose known material adverse facts pertaining to the physical condition of the ...

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