Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A Fairfax Circuit Court denies a homeowners association’s petition requesting the State Building Code Technical Review Board to review the HOA’s citations for local fire code violations following a final determination by a Local Board of Fire Prevention Code Appeals; ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen C. Shannon Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

In this lawsuit by the owners of landlocked lots seeking an easement over defendant neighbor’s property, a Loudoun County Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to join other lot owners in the subdivision and neighboring properties that once were part of ...

Tagged with: Loudoun County Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff family members who own several lots that were once part of a 62-acre parcel with defendant’s contiguous lot have established an easement by necessity to gain access over defendant’s property to reach the nearest public road, a Loudoun County ...

Tagged with: Loudoun County Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

A tenant that leased retail space for a hockey store and won a breach-of-contract suit filed by the LLC landlord is awarded $150,527.35 in attorney’s fees as a “substantially prevailing party” under the lease; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses this lawsuit filed by plaintiff and alleging fraud and mismanagement of a property located in Fredericksburg and jointly owned by plaintiff and defendant; plaintiff filed suit in 2013 in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court seeking ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Abingdon U.S. District Court denies plaintiff shopping center owner’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in this dispute over defendant lessee’s sublease of space to another tenant, after vacating the premises and opening a new supermarket across the street ...

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

A borrower who defaulted on his $1.2 million loan for a home at Smith Mountain Lake and who received a chapter 7 bankruptcy discharge and remains on the premises cannot sue defendant loan servicing company for allegedly violating the Fair ...

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

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