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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Where the parties agreed to place their separate businesses into a jointly owned corporation, the parties’ business leases are corporate assets and must be included when valuing the corporation’s shares in this dissolution action. Overview Biton and Kreinis are equal ...

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Where the decedent’s will created a trust, and the designated trustee predeceased the decedent, the income from the residuary estate goes to the trust beneficiaries, a group of charities, and not to the decedent’s blood relatives, who were “explicitly and ...

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Where plaintiff seeks additur or a new trial on damages after the jury awarded him nothing for future pain and suffering despite awarding him $500,000 for past lost earnings, future lost earning and past pain and suffering, the motion is ...

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Where the Virginia Housing Development Authority obtained a district court detainer order that granted it possession of a house plaintiff was living in, plaintiff has pleaded insufficient facts to show the order was obtained by extrinsic fraud. The VHDA’s plea ...

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Plaintiff, an injured seaman, is entitled to maintenance payments – compensation for food and lodging – even though his employer did not provide room and board as part of his employment. As a result, the employer is not entitled to ...

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In this ongoing litigation involving claims arising from a foreclosure sale of plaintiff’s home, the court denies his motion for leave to amend the eighth version of his complaint and grants a related motion to strike filed by the Virginia ...

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Plaintiffs lack the necessary property interest to raise constitutional and inverse condemnation claims arising from the city-ordered demolition of a fire-damaged building in a historical district. Background In 2015, Sinesi bought the Grandy House, which was built in 1901 and ...

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