After he was granted sole legal and physical custody of his child, an order granting a father’s petition for child support effectively terminated a previous order setting forth the father’s child support obligations. The old order had been entered when ...

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Plaintiff’s and defendant’s vehicles were stopped at a red light. Defendant’s vehicle was immediately behind plaintiff’s vehicle. When the light turned green, defendant vehicle drove his car forward into the rear of plaintiff’s vehicle. Plaintiff claimed that she sustained a ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles E. Poston Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Winchester Circuit Court

On March 2, 2012, the plaintiff was stopped at a red light at the 3100 block of Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. The defendant was driving at approximately 30 miles per hour behind the defendant and rear-ended her vehicle. While ...

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Plaintiff was seriously injured when he was crossing a busy intersection and struck by the defendant motorist. Following the collision, the defendant told the investigating police officer that he had a red traffic signal as he approached the intersection, came ...

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Plaintiff was seriously injured when he was crossing a busy intersection and struck by the defendant motorist. Following the collision, the defendant told the investigating police officer that he had a red traffic signal as he approached the intersection, came ...

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A Southampton County Circuit Court dismisses this lawsuit filed by 25 former and current police officers for the city of Franklin, alleging the city breached its contract with plaintiffs by forcing them to work 11 uncompensated hours each 28-day pay ...

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This is a slip and fall injury case arising out of an incident at the Holiday Inn and Suites North Beach on Atlantic Avenue at the Oceanfront. The plain­tiff was a registered nurse visiting the Vir­ginia Beach resort area from ...

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The plain­tiff suffered a mild traumatic brain injury when she was rear-ended while waiting to merge onto a busy road during the morning rush hour in Vir­ginia Beach. The defendant claimed that the impact was a low-speed tap which was ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles E. Poston Personal Injury Virginia Beach Circuit Court

In this legal malpractice action, a Norfolk Circuit Court says defendants are not pro­tected by sovereign immunity or collateral estoppel from a suit claiming the lawyers did not name as defendants in a civil rights suit the hospital staff members ...

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A former bank president has won $810,495 in severance pay and attorney’s fees and costs, in a contract dispute that wound through federal and state courts for the past two years. Scott Harvard served as president of Shore Bank and ...

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