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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A systems engineer terminated by UVa Medical Center for multiple instances of failing to meet performance expectations and for insubordination cannot overturn his termination by challenging a hearing officer’s factual findings during his grievance procedure, which the Charlottesville Circuit Court ...

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Police who obtained defendant’s waiver of his rights when they arrested him for first-degree murder in Spotsylvania County, and who then ceased substantive questioning when defendant indicated he wanted to rest as the detectives drove him to Charlottesville, saying he ...

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Although wife trained and worked as a physician, she suffered an accident in her youth that has resulted in increased disability at this stage in her life, and the Charlottesville Circuit Court orders her physician husband to pay her monthly ...

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Although a police informant previously was reliable, he violated his contract with police by surreptitiously possessing cocaine just prior to his controlled buy from defendant, which police did not discover until they searched the informant’s car again after the buy ...

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Plaintiff, a 71-year-old African American man, was a patient at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville in the fall of 2012, where he was being treated for symptoms following a stroke that had occurred in the summer of ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies a habeas corpus petition based on petitioner’s bare assertion that he pleaded guilty because his trial lawyer guaranteed a sentence no higher than seven years, when he in fact received a 13-year sentence. Petitioner’s claim ...

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An architectural firm has stated contract and fiduciary duty claims against a member who resigned and allegedly failed to abide by a Memorandum of Understanding that required payment of project proceeds to offset firm debt; the Charlottesville Circuit Court overrules ...

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A subcontractor seeking payment from a general contractor bypassed multiple ADR options in the parties’ contract and sued the payment sureties and the general contractor, in a new decision from Charlottesville Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Richard E. Moore refused to ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies defendant real estate company’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, raised for the first time after default judgment was entered against defendant and it made appearances in court; the court also grants ...

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