A Fairfax Circuit Court says a fee-shifting provision in a contract for telecommunications services does not require plaintiff HOA to cover fees owed by the defendant who entered into the contract to codefendants it separately agreed to indemnify. Plaintiff Landsdowne ...

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It might lead to a “Dickensian result,” but a Fairfax Circuit Court cannot reduce husband’s $1,000 monthly spousal support payment after his annual income dropped from $125,000 to $25,000; husband did not show up at the hearing on the final ...

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In a case of first impression, a Fairfax Circuit Court says police use of a law enforcement search tool to monitor a peer-to-peer network and identify the IP address of a person who used the network to share child pornography ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies VDOT’s motion to strike a property owner’s objections to VDOT’s petition in condemnation for a partial taking of a parcel in Chantilly for the widening of Route 50. The owner of the property, Dulles Properties, ...

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A restaurant tenant cannot claim its Right of First Refusal has been breached by a transfer of the property from a living trust that took the property upon the owner’s death, to her son, who was the trustee and sole ...

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A hotel company and three guarantors on loans for three parcels in Fredericksburg waited too long to bring their fraud claims based on loan documents including a swap agreement that let plaintiffs exchange a variable interest rate for a fixed ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court dismisses a personal injury suit filed by the estate of an employee who died in a car accident with his coworker, against the coworker and the employer, in light of the recent Supreme Court decision in ...

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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts timely filed its counterclaim against the lessor of its storage and preparation center in Lorton alleging the lessor breached the lease when Krispy Kreme was forced to pay a monthly “pump and haul” fee to the county ...

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In this suit by the commonwealth against defendant bank on behalf of various public employees’ pension funds, the complaint does not state a claim under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act because there is no link between alleged false accounting ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies extradition of petitioner to Florida, as the extradition papers do not accurately state the status of the charges and the alleged offenses, and incorrectly assert that defendant fled Florida to avoid prosecution, when he was ...

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