Always try to get a noncompete and a nonsolicitation agreement from employees. That’s the take-away for small businesses in the wake of a recently dismissed business tort lawsuit in Fairfax Circuit Court. The case featured two small woman-owned businesses that ...

Tagged with: Employment Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows

A Fairfax Circuit Court says a medical equipment salesman who inadvertently took a contacts list and a vendors list as he copied his personal files onto a flash drive before starting a job with a competitor did not breach a ...

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The driver of the defendant’s tanker truck drove through a red light and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle. The brakes on the third axle were inoperable and one front brake was out of adjustment. Evidence showed that the defendant did not ...

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A county zoning administrator may request an injunction against a couple cited for operating a bed-and-breakfast in violation of county zoning ordinances; a Fairfax Circuit Court says although the couple thought they had resolved the issue through discussions with the ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court says it can impose sanctions on both plaintiff and his counsel, even after plaintiff wins the relief he requested when he filed suit against defendant bank. Earlier, the court dismissed plaintiff businessman’s suit to collect damages ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court judge declines to recuse himself from a proceeding to resentence a capital defendant whose death sentence was reversed by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Defendant moved to recuse this judge, arguing that he had presided over ...

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A husband’s complaint that wife should be working full-time after her “elective” bilateral mastectomy is rebuffed by a Fairfax Circuit Court’s opinion that wife’s surgery was “‘elective’ only in the sense that she ‘elected’ to stay alive,” and the court ...

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A repair project to replace soffit on building terraces was not an “improvement” under Virginia’s statute of repose, and a Fairfax Circuit Court in this first-impression case says the defendant contractor is not protected under Va. Code § 8.01-250. This ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court dismisses plaintiff businessman’s suit to collect damages under Va. Code § 8.3A-411 from defendant bank for issuing a stop payment order on plaintiff’s $35,000 cashier’s check drawn on plaintiff’s title company account because an affidavit of ...

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