Isatu Sheriff, 39, emigrated to the U.S. from Sierra Leone. For many years, she worked long hours in a nursing home as a certified nursing aide. As a result, she developed a bunion on her foot. A Kaiser podiatrist scheduled ...

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Where the parties are reading the same documents that form their contract but understanding the same writings in different but not unreasonable ways, the contracts are ambiguous and the trier of fact must resolve the ambiguity. The parties’ competing motions ...

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The case involved a 33-year-old woman who underwent a lymph node biopsy in August 2011. During the procedure, the defendant ENT doctor transected the plaintiff’s spinal accessory nerve, causing permanent atrophy and paralysis of the trapezius muscle with significant pain, ...

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Patient, a 70-year-old Taiwanese woman, sought cosmetic surgery to remove the “puffiness” in her eyelids. She went to defendant (plastic surgeon) who recommended a blepharoplasty (a procedure to remove fat from her eyelids). During the blepharoplasty, defendant severed the tendon ...

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The trial involved a breach of contract arising from the purchase of Mr. Holman’s ownership interest in Dominion Mechanical. Plaintiff Stephen Holman sought to accelerate principal and interest payments, and attorney’s fees equal to 25 percent of the unpaid balance, ...

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The Virginia Employment Commission’s handling of a medical technologist’s proffers of proof that she did not falsify a doctor’s note, and denial of unemployment compensation based on her “misconduct,” are reversed as “arbitrary and capricious” by the Fairfax Circuit Court. ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court reverses a Board of Zoning Appeals’ decision ordering owners to remove two nonconforming structures from property they have owned and paid taxes on since 1998; the county’s failure to separately assess taxes on two structures on ...

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Although a data center purchased by plaintiff lost its largest client, Amazon, 13 months after the sale, plaintiff’s suit against defendant seller alleging multiple counts of fraud and breach of contract fails after a three-week trial in Fairfax Circuit Court. ...

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In this whistleblower case under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, in which the commonwealth chose not to intervene, the Relators’ share of the $1.25 settlement for defendants’ fraudulent conduct is 28 percent of the entire proceeds, not the net ...

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