SCV: Code provides options for large renewable-energy consumers

March 30, 2018 Comments Off on SCV: Code provides options for large renewable-energy consumers (access required)

High-demand customers can purchase renewable energy from competitive service providers under a statutory framework for “individual retail customers.” Background This appeal presents the question whether certain large electricity consumers can purchase electricity from any licensed supplier of energy in the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Environmental Regulated Industries Supreme Court of Virginia Utilities

VABC statute doesn’t authorize applicant searches

March 5, 2018 Comments Off on VABC statute doesn’t authorize applicant searches (access required)

The Departmet was justified in terminating an agent’s employment after he searched the business office of a license applicant without her consent or a warrant. Background Linda K. Swim applied to Appellee Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for an ...

Tagged with: Administrative Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Supreme Court of Virginia

Source-of-duty rule precludes attorneys’ fees

February 7, 2018 Comments Off on Source-of-duty rule precludes attorneys’ fees (access required)

The court reversed an award of attorneys’ fees, finding that the fraud claim on which they were based arose solely from obligations under the parties’ agreement, the court held. JB&A was a government contractor that provided services to U.S. intelligence ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Contract Supreme Court of Virginia

Distinct proof standards for successor-liability theories

February 7, 2018 Comments Off on Distinct proof standards for successor-liability theories (access required)

In prior litigation, Plaintiff La Bella Dona Skin Care Inc. won a substantial aggregate judgment against its former employees (judgment debtors) and their new, competing business, Bon Air Med Spa LLC. The judgment debtors were represented by the law firm ...

Tagged with: Business Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Supreme Court of Virginia

Lifting the cover on the auto exception

January 2, 2018 Comments Off on Lifting the cover on the auto exception (access required)

A brief police search in a Charlottesville driveway in 2013 could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to define the scope of permissible warrantless searches. Arguments are scheduled Jan. 9 on whether the constitutional rules for vehicle searches are different when ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Judge Cheryl V. Higgins Supreme Court of Virginia Virginia Court of Appeals