A car dealer can enforce an arbitration clause against a buyer who says the dealer told her the vehicle had never been in a collision, only to have a second inspector tell her the car had been in a wreck ...

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A defendant who has been incarcerat­ed simultaneously on both local charges and a detainer from another county, whose incarceration results in unused jail credit, is entitled to have the sheriff apply the unused jail credit to the sen­tence arising out ...

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On remand from the Supreme Court of Virginia, a Fairfax Circuit Court grants petitioner’s request under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for the Virginia Department of Corrections to produce Documents 8a-f, which are components of the electric chair and ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to set aside a confessed judgment of $703,363.96 on a promissory note defendant executed for a loan by plaintiff; although defendant says the parties did not intend for his payment of $275,040 to ...

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Deborah MacDougall and Richard Levick have been in and out of divorce court since 2011. Their primary problem? They never were actually married. That has been the legal conclusion of a trial court and the Virginia Court of Appeals. But ...

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After a jury verdict on 10 felony counts, including two counts of capital murder and one count of first-degree murder, a Fairfax Circuit Court sentences defendant to three life sentences plus an additional 48 years in prison and $400,000 in ...

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In a case of first impression under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the Fairfax Circuit Court holds that under Va. Code § 2.2-3704(H), a public body may, before continuing to process a FOIA request, require actual payment of a ...

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A couple who was married by a rabbi without the benefit of a marriage license, which was obtained later and signed by the celebrant one month after the wedding ceremony, was not legally married, and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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A woman does not have to repay nearly $600,000 in temporary support and attorney’s fees to the man she thought was her husband, even though a court declared their marriage void. The Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s decision ...

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Plaintiff underwent a colonoscopy to evaluate an undiagnosed condition. Because the plaintiff knew that he would be groggy after the colonoscopy and might not remember the doctor’s findings and instructions, he set his iPhone to record the after-procedure conversation in ...

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