A board of zoning appeals was not precluded from reconsideration of a variance request previously brought under different statutory provisions, the court held. In 2006, Plaintiff Debra Chilton-Belloni and her husband sought approval to build a wall on their property ...

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A hard-fought battle over the technicalities of getting married in Virginia has been resolved with a narrow judicial preference for the validity of marriage over formulaic procedure. The backyard wedding of Richard Levick and Deborah MacDougall in 2002 – with ...

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Plaintiff is a 38-year-old male who was the driver of a ve­hicle travelling west on Interstate 66 in Fairfax County on Oct. 4, 2013. The defendant was driving in front of the plaintiff when he stopped on the high­way to ...

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A high school student does not have standing to sue the county school board based on the student’s alleged distress over potential repercussions from the school board’s expansion of its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy; the Supreme Court also affirms a ...

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In connection with the Route 123/Route 1 interchange project in Woodbridge, VDOT condemned portions of property owned by Mr. Gupta and his family. The certificates of take filed in the matter explicitly reference taking two billboards–one owned by Clear Channel ...

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Subcontractors on a 1997 contract for a health and fitness center at Virginia Tech cannot be sued by the prime contractor in 2014 after the prime contractor set­tled Virginia Tech’s claims for defective workmanship; the subcontracts did not waive the ...

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A three-member arbitration panel has rejected a dozen claims of fraud, self-dealing and other unethical conduct against an Alexandria attorney after a high-stakes family feud over years of complex financial transactions. The arbitrators decided in favor of lawyer Bruce W. ...

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Despite a plea from trial lawyers for guidance on when a defendant can cast blame on outsiders in a tort case, the Supreme Court of Virginia’s latest ruling on the issue of superseding cause is unlikely to resolve the issue. ...

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A charitable organization, as intended beneficiary of a will, wins a $603,409.90 legal malpractice judgment against a lawyer who failed to draft a will conforming to the testa­tor’s wish to have her entire estate pass to the charitable organization; a ...

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Will-writing lawyers are wast­ing little time before they start to draft a possible legislative fix for a June 2 decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia that has sparked worries about their long-term liability exposure. The court upheld a six-figure ...

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