Where a defendant affirmatively acts to conceal a cause of action, the statute of limitations is tolled until the concealment is discovered, and it is immaterial whether the cause of action has accrued when the intentional, fraudulent concealment occurs. In ...

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A Roanoke lawyer is fighting a ruling that he cheated families of his deceased former law partners out of their shares of a once-forgotten stock certificate. A trial judge imposed compensatory and punitive damages against G. Nelson Mackey that – ...

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On Aug. 19, 2014, the plaintiff was traveling southbound on South Boston Road in Fluvanna County, proceeding through the intersection with Slice Road. The defendant was traveling northbound on South Boston Road, made a left turn onto Slice Road, and ...

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Two judges who vigorously advocated against a courthouse relocation referendum did not commit judicial misconduct, the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled. The unanimous court dismissed judicial ethics charges against Senior Court of Appeals Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III and retired ...

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A group of 23 former presidents of the Virginia Bar Association, as well as two civil liberties organizations, have come to the defense of two Virginia  judges accused of improper political activity. The former VBA presidents filed a friend of ...

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In a suit filed by the granddaughter of a 75-year-old woman who suffers from diabetes and mild dementia, against the woman’s niece, who formerly had power of attorney, and her great-niece, the granddaughter’s allegations that defendants manipulated the woman’s medications ...

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A lawsuit alleging two relatives manipulated a vulnerable woman into making a gift of her home has survived a first round of defensive pleadings. The suit claimed a niece and a great-niece launched a “campaign of manipulation” against their 75-year-old ...

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Plaintiff alleged that the decedent, an 87-year-old female, was dropped from an Invacare Hoyer lift on Aug. 21, 2010. The fall resulted in multiple rib fractures, splenic laceration and ultimately pneumonia that led in continuous sequence until the decedent died ...

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A Bath County Circuit Court grants a biological father’s petition to change the name of a two-year-old child from the mother’s surname to the father’s surname. The court is of the opinion that it is in the best interest of ...

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A Bath County boy will now carry the surname of his father, after the man successfully petitioned the court for a name change. Name-change cases are not common, but Roanoke lawyer Vicki L. Wiese, who represented the father, said courts ...

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