Where plaintiff, a Republican candidate in Virginia for the U.S. Senate, alleges that the commonwealth’s guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are unconstitutional as applied to him because they interfered with his ability to obtain the requisite number of ...

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Volunteer coaches conducting a high school baseball team’s batting practice have sovereign immunity from the simple negligence claims in plaintiffs’ lawsuit. Immunity analysis Code § 2.2-3605 provides sovereign immunity to volunteers to the same extent as paid staff. Whether the ...

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Where plaintiff claims defendant marina’s actions caused his boat to sink during a winter storm, the parties’ boat slip lease did not create a bailment, so plaintiff’s cause of action is limited to a claim for breach of contract. His ...

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A bond company under state investigation for consumer-protection violations has no basis to demand a confidentiality agreement before turning over its client information to the Commonwealth. Although the company said some disclosures might reveal clients’ immigration information and other personal ...

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In plaintiff’s suit challenging his termination, the Richmond Circuit Court overrules defendant Virginia Automobile Dealers Association’s demurrers to plaintiff’s claim for defamation and for actual fraud, but sustains the demurrers to his claim for fraud in the inducement and for ...

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Plaintiff, 55, suffered from amyloidosis with renal involvement, a rare blood dis­ease for which no cure exists. She under­went chemotherapy and a successful stem cell transplant in April 2012. On June 17, 2012, the patient was re-admitted with fe­ver of ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to take up a lower court’s ruling that state legislators were in contempt of court for failing to disclose emails related to the 2011 remapping of the state’s Sen­ate districts. The court on ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court denies a motion to stay proceedings in this Virginia constitutional challenge to a state legislative redistricting plan, as the federal constitutional challenge to the plan pending in federal district court does not involve the same parties ...

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