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Tax Payments Protected Nonconforming Structures
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 the property used as rental properties does not remove the owners from the protection of […]
Data Center Loses Fraud Suit Against Seller
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. Plaintiff Lynnwood Tech Holdings LLC is wholly owned and managed by ByteGrid Holdings LLC. Plaintiff […]
Whistleblowers Get Bigger Cut of VFATA Win
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 proceeds after reimbursement of the federal government; the Fairfax Circuit Court grants the qui tam […]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Driver fell asleep, causing significant auto accident — $1M settlement
- Defense verdict returned for company in rear-end crash — Defense verdict
- Cauda equina syndrome developed after procedure — $625,000 settlement
- Passenger died months after sustaining multiple injuries — $725,000 settlement
- Plaintiff injured in crash with oncoming vehicle — $235,000 settlement
- Driver killed in rear-end collision with tractor-trailer — $1.5M settlement
- Man died from pancreatic cancer after delayed response — $1.8M settlement
- Worker fell off roof, rendering him a paraplegic — $1.25M settlement
- Driver sustained permanent hearing loss after traffic collision — $240,000 settlement
- Plaintiff suffered concussion in rear-end collision — $81,000 verdict
- Builder misrepresented home status to buyers — $675,000 verdict
- Low potassium led to cardiac arrest, death of patient — $1M settlement
Opinion Digests
- Company owner dodges breach of contract suit
- Employee’s own allegations doom minimum wage claim
- Federal government defeats former employee’s claims
- Principal wasn’t entitled to exclusively remote work
- USPTO properly redacted info in responsive documents
- Untimely lawsuit allowed to proceed
- Engineering consultant dismissed from suit
- Rule 60 motion was filed too late
- Nonprofit directors immune from ex-employees’ claims
- City, employees immune from whistleblower claims
- Experts excluded in condemnation damages suit
- Judgment entered against company for horse’s death
