The circuit court properly granted defendants’ demurrers to plaintiff’s claim against them for the tort of interference with parental rights. Further, plaintiff’s defamation claim against one defendant is dismissed because the complained-of statements are not actionable. Facts Michael Wilson and ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia Tort

Statutes that require motor vehicles to be covered by a minimum of $50,000 in liability and property damage insurance do not prevent a self-insured school board from contracting for a great amount of coverage, and do not limit coverage to ...

Tagged with: Insurance Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia

In a suit to recover towing and other charges associated with righting a dump truck, recovering its load, remediating contaminated soil, and removing the truck and the soil from the scene, the jury’s damage award must be reduced. The remedy ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia

The circuit court lost jurisdiction to hear a motion to modify appellant’s sentence once the Virginia Department of Corrections took him into custody. Overview Appellant Akers received a three-year sentence, with two years and six months suspended, for being a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia

The Court of Appeals correctly affirmed appellant’s conviction under the hit and run statute after determining there was sufficient evidence to show that he failed to satisfy either of the two post-accident reporting requirements. However, the Court of Appeals should ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Justice Stephen R. McCullough Justice William C. Mims Supreme Court of Virginia

Where the taxpayer challenged tax as­sessments of an idled meatpacking plant on 12 acres of land, the taxpayer did not overcome the presumption of correctness that attached to a mass appraisal for two of the tax years in question, and ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

Where the trial court imposed suspended sentences for appellant’s felony and misdemeanor convictions, placed him on one year of supervised probation and expressly stated a good behavior condition, a later probation revocation order lacking such condition did not prevent the ...

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Evidence of the probability that appellant’s farmland would be rezoned for commercial use was admissible in this condemnation case to determine the compensation due for land taken to construct a highway interchange. Background The highway commission sought to take a ...

Tagged with: Justice Cleo E. Powell Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Justice Stephen R. McCullough Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

Lawyers need to choose their medical experts with care. That’s a key lesson from a new Supreme Court of Virginia decision, one lawyer said. The justices refused to overturn a patient’s verdict even though the jury was told that a ...

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Where the trial court ruled, without hearing any evidence on the matter, that a nursing assistant was within the scope of his employment when he molested and raped an elderly nursing home resident, the trial court erred by removing this ...

Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Justice Stephen R. McCullough Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia