A Fairfax Circuit Court rejects plaintiff landlords’ challenge to a local ordinance that created two rental inspection districts that encompassed all of Fairfax City, and holds that the ordinance was within the express power granted under the enabling statute and ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Municipal Virginia Circuit Courts

A city ordinance that has been applied to plaintiff railroad’s operation of an ethanol transloading facility for the transfer of bulk shipments of ethanol from railcars onto surface tank trucks, is preempted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act, the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert B. King Municipal

A Fairfax County ordinance that requires tow truck operators to tow “each vehicle to storage site located within the boundaries of Fairfax County” does not violate the federal Equal Protection Clause or contravene the Dillon Rule, the Virginia Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Justice Charles S. Russell Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia

Two statute of limitations cases, one involving an allegation of legal malpractice, are among the 14 granted appeals the Supreme Court of Virginia has posted on its Web site this month. The SOL cases are Laura Anna Head Kelley v. ...

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A circuit court did not err in turning away landowners’ requests to have their parcels removed from the Windover Heights Historic District in Fairfax County, including one owner’s constitutional challenge to the general Historic Districts Ordinance, and the Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Justice William C. Mims Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia

In March 2008, Judge David F. Pugh ruled that the property owner’s property had been taken and damaged when the City of Newport News accepted into its storm water management system a drainage system that created a flooding condition on ...

Tagged with: Municipal Newport News Circuit Court Real Estate

A woman suing for injuries after her vehicle was struck when she attempted to pass a garbage truck as it pulled away from the curb cannot sue the city employee who has governmental immunity, a Norfolk Circuit Court says. The ...

Tagged with: Judge Louis Allen Sherman Municipal Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A plaintiff who alleges improper maintenance of a city sidewalk and the city’s failure to respond to residents’ complaints about the uneven sidewalk adjacent to tree roots can try her case; a Norfolk Circuit Court says the pleadings do not ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Municipal Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A police officer exercised discretion when he rapidly responded to a 911 call about a man high on crack and armed with a knife; the officer and the City of Roanoke are immune but stay in this auto-accident suit so ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Municipal Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

An excavation company cannot use either the Virginia Public Procurement Act or defendant city’s own purchasing manual to establish the court’s jurisdiction for its challenge to the city’s decision not to award a contract on a particular project, and the ...

Tagged with: Judge James V. Lane Municipal Rockingham County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts