A contractor may not proceed to enforce a mechanic’s lien against a homeowner because the contractor’s complaint does not include MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems Inc., as a necessary party to the mechanic’s lien suit, says a Fairfax Circuit ...

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Although the parties’ 2005 final divorce decree stated wife would receive 50 percent of husband’s county pension as equitable distribution, their 2008 Qualified Domestic Relations Order, entered by consent, stated wife was entitled to 50 percent of the “marital share ...

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Ahh, summer camp. Arts and crafts, bunk buddies and ghost stories around the campfire. Add to that the sound of a gavel, as a judge rules in a car crash case that involves teens texting and drinking and is, like, ...

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In these four consolidated cases that arose from the business relationships among three men, first operating a Shakey’s Pizza franchise and later a restaurant that also served as the site for a side business preparing box lunches for visiting school ...

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Midlothian attorney Stacy F. Garrett III, a former Richmond prosecutor, has been hit with a second one-year suspension of his law license. A three-judge panel of Chesterfield County Circuit Court ordered the suspension for Garrett, finding he failed to use ...

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In this suit by relatives of a woman who died of brain cancer, claiming fraud, conversion and unjust enrichment by decedent’s former work supervisor and decedent’s lawyer cousin, a Fairfax Circuit Court says plaintiffs have stated claims for fraud and ...

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A Fairfax circuit judge bounced a Maryland lawyer from a Virginia legal malpractice case last month for alleged bad behavior at a series of “contentious and hostile” depositions. In effect, the lawyer was thrown off the case for talking too ...

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In this contract dispute between plaintiff investors’ group that allegedly procured financing for defendant Allied Defense Group, a Fairfax Circuit Court reconsiders its earlier rulings on demurrers, and says plaintiff arguably has stated a claim for breach of a promise ...

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A landlord can’t overturn a jury verdict for a guarantor of a restaurant lease with a claim of “jury nullification”; a Fairfax Circuit Court says the guarantor’s testimony that he received a verbal assurance that his guaranty was released when ...

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The Court of Appeals says appellate attorney’s fees and costs will be awarded against a pro se mother who appealed the trial court’s modification of joint custody to give the father primary control over three-year-old child after a two-day hearing. ...

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