Where the city of Norfolk has filed a demurrer and a plea in bar in response to plaintiff’s complaint arising from a building demolition, the demurrer is sustained and plaintiff is granted leave to amend its complaint. Defendant city’s plea ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk City Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the City of Norfolk has filed a demurrer and a plea in bar in response to plaintiff’s complaint arising from a building demolition, the demurrer is sustain and plaintiff is granted leave to amend its complaint. Defendant city’s plea ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk City Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the city of Norfolk levies its Business, Professional, and Occupational License tax on an internet provider’s gross income, this violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act unless Norfolk’s tax has been grandfathered under the ITFA. The court does not ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk City Circuit Court Taxation Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiffs are denied injunctive and mandamus relief in this challenge to executive orders issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that they will suffer irreparable harm without an injunction, or that a temporary injunction is in ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where a contractor sought coverage under a CGL policy when it was sued for not timely completing repairs, the insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify because the suit did not allege an “occurrence” within the policy’s terms. Overview ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Insurance Judge David W. Lannetti Virginia Circuit Courts

Where defendant elected to purchase plaintiff’s shares in lieu of dissolution in this corporate dispute, the court declines to use a revenue determination from defendant’s expert because it is based on unreliable data. The revenue determination from plaintiff’s expert will ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The judges of the Virginia Court of Appeals went in three different directions in analyzing when a document – a signed proof of service – can take the place of live testimony to prove violation of a criminal statute. At ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Judge David W. Lannetti Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

Where defendant is charged with sexually abusing his two stepdaughters and has demanded separate jury trials, the court clarifies its prior ruling and holds that all of the charges against defendant involving one of his stepdaughters can be tried at ...

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

Where defendant was arrested as a robbery suspect and told police about his drug use in the days before the robbery, those statements are inadmissible when he later became a suspect in a robbery committed the previous month. Background Blowe ...

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

Where defendant elected to buy plaintiff’s shares in a jointly owned company after plaintiff filed a dissolution action, the court denies defendant’s motion to set an alternate valuation date. The statutory valuation date, which is the day before plaintiff filed ...

Tagged with: Business Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts