A Petersburg Circuit Court denies defendants’ demurrer and rules that plaintiff administrator may proceed on its second amended complaint under Virginia’s fetal wrongful death statute, Va. Code § 8.01-50(B) and (C), alleging the death of a mother and her eight-week-old ...

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The Virginia statute governing appointment of a mental health expert to assist an indigent defendant in a capital murder sentencing does not subject defendant to disparate treatment, compared to non-indigent defendants, because of the statutory reporting requirements imposed on experts ...

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Plaintiff employees of the Crossroads Community Services agency who made complaints about operation of the agency at a closed session of the agency’s board of directors have not stated defamation claims against the agency director based on her statements about ...

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Four fired employees of a Southside community services agency saw their defamation and related claims tossed out of court last month. The four were terminated in January after bringing complaints about the operation of the Crossroads Community Services Board to ...

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Plaintiff filed a law­suit against defen­dant mental health hospital seeking over $30 million in dam­ages. She alleged that it had failed to pre­vent her alleged rape by another patient. She sued for violation of the Virginia Con­sumer Protection Act, general ...

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A Dinwiddie County Circuit Court holds that the Highway Commissioner’s amend­ment of a certificate of take to reduce the property taken does not nullify the bona fide offer to purchase as a condition prece­dent for the court’s jurisdiction. The commissioner ...

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A Dinwiddie County Circuit Court de­nies a property owner’s motion to dismiss the Commissioner of Highways’ petition for condemnation and request to partial­ly invalidate the certificate of take in this case involving property near the intersec­tion of Cox Road and ...

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A substitute school nurse cannot state a defamation claim based on two statements school officials made to a television inves­tigative reporter about a sick student’s re­lease to her aunt as not following “protocol” and as an “error”; the Petersburg Circuit ...

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A substitute school nurse cannot state a defamation claim based on two statements school officials made to a television inves­tigative reporter about a sick student’s re­lease to her aunt as not following “protocol” and as an “error”; the Petersburg Circuit ...

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Although an officer had authority to impound defendant’s vehicle which had stopped in a lane of traffic, the common­wealth introduced no evidence of the local policy on vehicle inventory searches the of­ficer claimed to be implementing, and the presumption that ...

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