Charlottesville city council members are statutorily immune from plaintiffs’ claims arising from a series of votes relating to the removal, sale and covering up of statutes of two Civil War generals in city parks. The defendant council members’ actions did ...

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Statues erected in the city of Charlottesville of Civil War General Robert E. Lee and Lt. General Thomas Jonathon Jackson are “monuments or memorials,” as mentioned in Code § 15.2-1812, says a 16th Judicial Circuit Court judge. Plaintiffs moved for ...

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At the time of the events in question in 2013, plaintiff was 52 and had been totally and permanently disabled for approximately a decade from multiple health conditions including a cardiac condition. After multiple cardiac catherizations and stenting, plaintiff presented ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Diane McQuade Strick­land Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements

Plaintiff was injured when his foot and ankle were run over by a heavy vehicle on a construction site. He suf­fered no broken bones and required no surgeries, but developed Complex Region­al Pain Syndrome in his foot and heel. As ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court iden­tifies multiple outstanding issues of ma­terial fact in this dispute over whether, under an oral contract, plaintiff contin­ued to be entitled to commissions after a change in his job with defendant; the court denies defendant’s motion ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court refuses to dismiss a defamation suit filed by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity based on statements made in defendant Rolling Stone maga­zine about a purported gang rape at the fraternity’s house on the UVa campus; the court ...

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Plaintiff Hicks had cervical (C6-7) fusion surgery in 1975 after a horrific auto acci­dent where he broke his neck. However, he has had few (if any) problems with his neck in the 40 years since. In De­cember 2012, a Mack ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore Personal Injury

A Charlottesville Circuit Court orders decedent’s long-time attorney who is also his executor to reimburse the estate by $10,320 to cover old legal fees the at­torney billed to decedent and separate attorney’s fees paid for legal advice the executor sought ...

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A lawyer who hired another lawyer when questions were raised about his handling of a decedent’s estate will have to cover some of the legal fees from his own pocket. A Charlottesville circuit judge this month disallowed payment from the ...

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A respiratory therapist who received a Step 3 warning for failure to update spreadsheets related to smoking cessation cannot overturn a hearing officer decision upholding the disciplinary notice, a Charlottesville Circuit Court holds. The question in this case is whether ...

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