Although a rabbi who performed a couple’s wedding ceremony received and signed their marriage license two weeks after the ceremony, their marriage is void, says a Fairfax Circuit Court. A marriage ceremony without a marriage license has no legal effect. ...

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In 2002, a couple in Northern Virginia were married, or at least they thought they were married. In 2011, the wife filed for divorce and for the next two years, they battled through the courts with numerous hearings, discovery dustups ...

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A construction company sued by an insurance carrier that covered homeowners’ fire loss allegedly caused by a faulty light fixture cannot bring cross-claims for breach of warranty against the manufacturer of the light fixture’s light switch; the Fairfax Circuit Court ...

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An employee who was unhappy with working more than 40 hours in a week without overtime pay and who quit instead of complying with her supervisor’s request to complete a “paid time off” form after taking a sick day, did ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court says the federal DUI statute to which defendant pled guilty substantially parallels Virginia’s DUI statute, Va. Code § 18.2-266, and the court rejects the driver’s petition asserting it was error for Virginia to revoke his Virginia ...

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Judging from the recent buzz, it looks like Virginia lawyers are just beginning to grapple with the difference the new Virginia Rules of Evidence, effective July 1, will make at trial. The new Rules represent a “sea change” in trial ...

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James Planicka, DDS, suffered a severe heart attack in 2005 at age 65, after which he received an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). In May 2010, at age 70, he presented to Inova Fairfax Hospital for replacement of the ICD generator. ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court rejects a negligence claim against a company that screens job applicants for allegedly missing the “extensive” criminal record of a leasing agent hired by a Falls Church apartment complex, who later was sentenced to the death ...

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FAIRFAX (AP) The Episcopal Church should be restored as the owner of several historic churches in Virginia, a Fairfax circuit judge has ruled, years after the denomination was essentially evicted by local congregations dismayed with Episcopal leadership’s liberal theology. In ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court has rejected a negligence claim against a company that screens job applicants for allegedly missing the “extensive” criminal record of a leasing agent hired by a Falls Church apartment complex. The company, Liberty Screening Services Ltd., ...

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