The owners of a piece of property condemned by a town can’t get their land back after the town changes its plans and sells the land to a business, a Hanover Circuit judge has ruled. The land was taken before ...

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Although a lender that refinanced a mortgage on property owned by husband and wife as tenants by entirety neglected to get wife’s signature on the refinance loan, the Hanover County Circuit Court imposes a constructive trust on wife’s interest in ...

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Although a demand for additional money, the use of threatening language and poor grammar in a demand note would seem to be common in bank robberies, the punctuation and spelling errors common to the three demand notes support allowing the ...

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Because the clinical psychologist who initially found defendant competent to stand trial stated that his opinion might change if defendant had an appropriate neurological examination, including an EEG and CAT scan and/or MRI, a Hanover Circuit Court orders the additional ...

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A Hanover Circuit Court may not modify a couple’s final divorce decree from 2008 in order to reduce the $40,000 sum for husband’s share of the equity upon sale of the home, which has declined in value since the date ...

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A plaintiff who paid defendant lawyer a $45,000 flat fee to defend a juvenile on a rape charge through “final verdict” of the juvenile court, has standing to seek an accounting of that fee after the lawyer was discharged before ...

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A Hanover Circuit Court says a petitioner who claims his lawyer did not advise him about possible immigration consequences when he pleaded guilty to certain crimes in 2003 cannot pursue relief in a petition for a writ of coram vobis. ...

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A subcontractor that received debris from site clearing on a public road project may bring an action on a contractor’s payment bond under Va. Code § 2.2-4337(A); while not a typical subcontractor, plaintiff Yard Works is a valid claimant under ...

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A defendant who was charged with stalking but who pleaded guilty to the amended charge of using profane language over a telephone is not entitled to have the stalking charge expunged, says the Hanover County Circuit Court, as the guilty ...

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Although respondent Virginia Department of Transportation says this FOIA petitioner will be able to impermissibly obtain personnel information if VDOT provides the Position Numbers petitioner seeks, the Hanover Circuit Court says FOIA does not contemplate exemptions arising from a petitioner’s ...

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