Where appellant, a Virginia resident, sought to exert long-arm personal jurisdiction over a North Carolina medical center, the trial court properly granted the center’s motion to dismiss. The medical center did not purposefully avail itself of the privilege of doing ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court correctly concluded that a trust distribution belonged to the buyer of a senior care center instead of the center’s manager. Background The Temple Foundation operated The Virginian, a senior living center, under a lease with Thompson Associates, ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the circuit court ruled that the statute of limitations barred appellant’s personal injury claims against appellee, an emergency order related to the COVID-19 pandemic tolled all statutes of limitations, not just those that would have expired during a discrete ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Court of Appeals

Where appellant and his companion both told police after a Terry stop that they were armed, pat-down searches for weapons were justified. Appellant’s motion to suppress a pipe with suspected methamphetamine residue found in his pocket was correctly denied. Relevant ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Court of Appeals

Where appellant was on pretrial bond in a home electronic monitoring program, he is not entitled to a credit against his active sentence imposed after his plea-based conviction for voluntary manslaughter. He was not in “confinement” and had been admitted ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Court of Appeals

An injury claim following the collapse of a deck in Halifax County has settled for an insurer’s $300,000 limits, after a judge rejected the landlord’s contention he had no duty to maintain the deck. The fall victim was a visitor ...

Tagged with: Halifax County Circuit Court Judge Kimberley S. White

A mediation clause in plaintiff’s contract to work for U.S. operations in Afghanistan in his Letter of Assignment is binding, even though his Offer Letter did not include the clause; the Fairfax Circuit Court dismisses his contract action alleging failure ...

Tagged with: Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Kimberley S. White Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff was struck in the rear by defen­dant while travelling home from work on Route 15 in Prince Edward County. De­fendant claimed the plaintiff stopped sud­denly because the car in front of plaintiff put on brakes. Plaintiff testified she was ...

Tagged with: Judge Kimberley S. White Personal Injury Prince Edward County Circuit Court

The plaintiffs, a husband and wife, claimed that the defendant, their neighbor, substantially interfered with their right to the quiet enjoyment and use of their property. Plaintiffs also claimed that the defendant harassed them by, among other things, intentionally setting ...

Tagged with: Buckingham County Circuit Court Judge Kimberley S. White

On Dec. 29, 2009, Joseph and Judy Torboli entered into a deed of trust on real property they had purchased in Appomattox. The lender owning the debt encumbering the real property was set forth in the deed of trust as ...

Tagged with: Appomattox County Circuit Court Judge Kimberley S. White Real Estate