Where a plaintiff asserted claims for defamation per se and insulting words against a bank and its attorney, but did not identify any actionable statements in a letter the attorney sent to the plaintiff, defendants’ demurrers are granted and plaintiff ...

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Where plaintiff lessee sued a lessor and the lessor’s management company for claims arising from mold in her apartment and the building’s common areas, claims against the management company are dismissed because the company was not in privity of contract ...

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Where plaintiff nonsuited a defendant in this personal injury case, a motion by the remaining defendant to transfer venue is granted. The court concludes that plaintiff added the nonsuited defendant “with the intent to create venue in a forum to ...

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Where a city charter provides that the treasurer is the custodian of municipal funds, and the city council passed an ordinance giving that authority to the city’s tax collector instead, the council lacked the authority to do so. Facts Pritchett ...

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A murder defendant, who is claiming self-defense, will not be allowed to introduce the victim’s convictions for a 1995 robbery and for a later assault and battery of defendant. Overview Defendant has been charged with first-degree murder and arson of ...

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Where a city charter provides that the treasurer is the custodian of municipal funds, and the city council passed an ordinance giving that authority to the city’s tax collector instead, the court denies defendants’ demurrer to the treasurer’s complaint that ...

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This medical malpractice trial involved complications arising from a hemorrhoidectomy procedure performed on a 53-year-old male resulting in anal stenosis and subsequent placement of a permanent colostomy. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant general surgeon negligently removed excess tissue during the ...

Tagged with: Judge Joseph M. Teefey Jr. Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Petersburg Circuit Court

Petitioner, a member of the Petersburg City Council, is an “officer of the locality” within the meaning of Code § 15.2-2311, and as such, has standing to challenge a decision made by respondent city’s zoning administrator regarding residential use of ...

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The ruling of a Petersburg judge may have opened opportunities to challenge local land use decisions in Virginia. The circuit judge said a Petersburg city councilman had standing as an “officer” of the locality to appeal the decision of the ...

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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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