Although a Loudoun County Circuit Court gave plaintiff leave to amend its complaint after the court sustained one defendant’s demurrer and the parties agreed among themselves that plaintiff could file a global amended complaint against all defendants, plaintiff did not ...

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A 19-year-old woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a traffic crash has won an $11 million settlement from the owner of a van that crossed the center line on a wet two-lane highway. The woman was a backseat ...

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The plaintiff alleged that in May 2009, he and a male companion, both of whom are Hispanic and were about 20 years of age at the time, were unjustly followed and monitored by security guards as they shopped at the ...

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A Loudoun County jury has awarded $282,000 to a young Hispanic man who alleged security guards at a Walmart store in Sterling accosted him and falsely accused him of shoplifting. Daniel Campos and a friend, Jose Platero, testified that a ...

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The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board has suspended the license of a Leesburg lawyer for five years because he continued to practice law and accepted a fee without providing services after his license had been suspended administratively. The action against ...

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At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2009, Kenneth Taylor, driver of a 2005 Nissan Murano, and his wife, the passenger, were involved in an automobile accident with defendant, who was driving a 1997 Ford Expedition. The Taylors were traveling ...

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In a supplier’s suit to enforce a mechanic’s lien against homeowners, the homeowners cannot demur to the suit based on the language of an earlier commercial account application between the supplier of construction materials and the builder for defendants, says ...

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Some Northern Virginia judges and lawyers are taking a fresh look at what had been a routine procedure intended to protect the rights of children when settling their civil claims. In Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, judges have decided that, in ...

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The 19-year-old decedent was riding an all-terrain vehicle when he encountered a wire cable that the Loudoun County Sanitation Authority had strung across a gravel roadway. Decedent apparently did not see the cable, struck it and died. The gravel road ...

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Based on an aerial photograph and detailed description of the parking lot with through access, open to the public, the area where defendant was operating his motor vehicle was a “highway” under Virginia law, and defendant can be convicted of ...

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