With its approval of a town’s decision to double the rate it charges for water and sewer service that goes beyond the town’s borders, the Supreme Court of Virginia may have set the stage for legislators to revisit the issue ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas D. Horne Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Loudoun County Circuit Court Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia News

Where there is no record evidence plaintiff had knowledge of, participated in, assisted with or condoned the settlement negotiations conducted by his attorney of his personal injury claim, a Loudoun Circuit Court will set aside the settlement and set the ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff, who was formerly an emergency medical technician, encountered a severe accident that happened only moments before on Fairfax County Route 28. He offered assistance to the trooper, who accepted and instructed plaintiff to care for the barely conscious victim. ...

Tagged with: Loudoun County Circuit Court Personal Injury

Water wars are being waged in Virginia localities, and the Supreme Court of Virginia is poised to dip a toe into the murky depths. Residents of Virginia counties often pay more for water and sewer service than do the residents ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge R. Terrence Ney Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia News

A couple’s 1988 property settlement agreement is interpreted by a Loudoun County Circuit Court to provide wife only with a share of husband’s earned pension benefits acquired as a result of his employment with the Fairfax County’s Educational Employees Supplemental ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Although petitioner’s Virginia lawyer provided constitutionally deficient counsel when he misrepresented New Jersey law by telling petitioner that “New Jersey can’t use [her] Virginia case against” her in New Jersey, and petitioner has shown the necessary prejudice under Strickland v. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A defendant was not in custody for Fourth Amendment purposes because a reasonable person returning to the U.S. through customs would have perceived the restriction attendant to questioning by the federal officers to be unlike the restraint imposed by a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A circuit court order ruling on a demurrer and pleas in bar in this personal injury case was not entered because it was lost in the clerk’s office, and defendant has shown “good cause” and may file a late answer ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where husband can only communicate with wife by e-mail or text messaging, under a JDR court protective order, and he testified he prefers no dialogue with wife and not to communicate with her at all, a Loudoun County Circuit Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court

Although husband claimed he began depositing his paycheck in a separate account for household expenses and to prevent wife’s access to pay her gambling debts, a Loudoun County Circuit Court does not find wife’s gambling to be an addiction or ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court