With a petition for appeal pending at the Supreme Court of Virginia and a two-week trial scheduled for June in Buckingham County, conflict over a closely held family mining business is simmering on two fronts. While the Supreme Court considers ...

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A Fairfax circuit judge has levied sanctions of $50,000 against a lawyer and his client for filing in a frivolous lawsuit based on a relationship gone bad. The plaintiff company filed a suit against a former employee that included claims ...

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An employer who was hurt and suspicious when he discovered defendant employee had formed a separate company working with two other employees, did not have a good faith basis for suing the former employee on conversion and trade secret claims, ...

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A 67-year-old closely held mining business may be broken up and parceled out under a judge’s “drastic” remedy for the company’s oppression of minority shareholders in a family feud that has played out as a courtroom corporate drama. Fairfax Circuit ...

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An orthopedic surgeon who said he was forced out of a job at Inova Fairfax Hospital can sue the hospital and several doctors for defamation for complaints about his conduct that could be deemed factual statements, not just opinions about ...

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Although wife did not sign loan documents on a mortgage refinance, the Fairfax Circuit Court says the property owners are not entitled to a windfall for this omission and plaintiff bank wins relief under theories of constructive trust and equitable ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court agrees with the special commissioner of sale that it is erroneous to decree a sale of lands to satisfy liens without first ascertaining all of the liens binding thereon, and the court directs the commissioner to ...

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A country club wins its case to correct four years of tax assessments on its 231-acre golf course in the city of Fairfax, as the city used a disfavored “development cost” approach to assess the property at $65 to $69 ...

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In plaintiff Army-Navy Country Club’s suit seeking correction of alleged erroneous tax assessments for 2007-2010 of its 231-acre golf course in Fairfax City, the Fairfax Circuit Court denies the country club’s motion to exclude testimony of the city’s expert witnesses, ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court says a woman who rejected the prosecutor’s offer to allow her to plead guilty to misdemeanor shoplifting, and who was convicted by a jury of felony shoplifting, is not entitled to a writ of coram vobis ...

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