Although the statute allowed a special commissioner to receive a commission on each parcel of real property sold, the court exercised its discretion to award a reduced amount it found appropriate as most of the properties were sold in a ...

Tagged with: Commercial Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a defendant claimed he took medications that caused him confusion the day he pleaded guilty to attacking his wife, he failed to show he had been given an overdose, and his effort to withdraw his plea was denied. In ...

Tagged with: Criminal Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court says a Premarital Agreement, signed by the pregnant wife who lived in the Dominican Republic and was not fluent in English and had a limited education, and misrepresented that husband, who lived in Norfolk and had ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court

In this med-mal case with a “long and tortured procedural path” due to plaintiff’s counsel’s mixed signals about the elderly plaintiff’s personal capacity to sue and her lawyer’s filing of petitions for appointment of a guardian or conservator, and efforts ...

Tagged with: Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Wills & Trusts

Apartment owners being sued by plaintiffs for alleged injuries from a tree limb that fell on plaintiffs have not stated a third-party claim for liability on the part of an electric utility that al­legedly had a duty to maintain an ...

Tagged with: Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate

In this dispute involving a New Home Warranty, a Norfolk Circuit Court says defendant received adequate notice of plaintiff homeowners’ claims of defects, but sets aside the jury’s award of $15,000 to homeowners, who proved, at most, $3,900 in damages. ...

Tagged with: Contract Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court

In the owner’s challenge to the city of Norfolk’s tax assessments of the Norfolk Waterside Sheraton Hotel, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the owner successfully rebutted the presumption of correctness by proving the city com­mitted manifest error in miscalculating the ...

Tagged with: Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate

A grandmother lost her expanded visitation with a grandson when the child’s mother – her own daughter – appealed the grandmother’s win. The grandmother, who lived a short walking distance from the mother’s house, complained that she was only allowed ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court