Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

In plaintiff power company’s suit alleging defendant owners of shorefront property in Franklin County are building a dock that violates plaintiff’s property rights, the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies defendants’ motion seeking the court’s recusal, but exercises its discretion to ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

Respondents who are within proximity to property owned and used by The Girl Scout Council have only asserted speculative harms that could arise from eventual construction of a storage facility on GSC property, and the Fairfax Circuit Court says a ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Virginia Circuit Courts Zoning

Century-old deeds that reference “two sycamore trees” are inadequate to establish a boundary line between property owned by a lumber company and by a food store, but the Buchanan County Circuit Court says the food store has established its right ...

Tagged with: Buchanan County Circuit Court Judge Henry Vanover Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

In a borrower’s fourth lawsuit to avoid foreclosure on his home, a Danville U.S. District Court dismisses all of plaintiff’s claims except a claim that he tendered a $127,150.20 payment to the bank, as recorded in a print-out, but failed ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

A property owner who desires to lease his lot and building to a local religious group who wants to use it as a church has standing to bring a claim against the city under the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert G. Doumar Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Following a Western District decision, an Alexandria U.S. District Court rejects defendant bank’s argument that plaintiff borrowers’ challenge to foreclosure on their home is barred by res judicata based on a bankruptcy court order lifting the stay or a Virginia ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant Kroger Company must pay its landlord the cost of repair to HVAC units damaged by  the theft of copper piping, in accord with Kroger’s duty under the commercial lease to self insure casualty losses, and the landlord may credit ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

In a dispute in which a circuit court ordered appellee to sell a parcel of land to a developer in 2004, with a provision for additional payment if the city approved the developer’s subdivision plans to allow six or more ...

Tagged with: Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

Plaintiff housing authority may not evict a tenant under lease provisions governing drug and criminal activity based on evidence that she arrived home as police were arresting her trespasser husband and found drugs; the Richmond Circuit Court says the evidence ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

An Abingdon U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff borrowers’ fraud and misrepresentation claims alleging the loan officers for defendant lender repeatedly represented that the borrowers’ income qualified them for multiple home refinancing loans; plaintiffs have failed to allege the content of ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District