A county board of supervisors may sue a private financial advisor hired by the board for breach of fiduciary duty; the Supreme Court of Virginia says the board effectively waived its common law legislative immunity from civil liability, and reverses ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a judgment that would have allowed 13 retired county employees to collect additional retirement benefits they argued they were owed because of a miscalculation by a county employee prior to their retirements; the retirees’ ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia

A Virginia county may require a “spiritual counselor” who offers psychic readings to obtain a business license and follow local zoning laws; the 4th Circuit says she is entitled to some First Amendment protection, but the county has not unconstitutionally ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Allyson K. Duncan Municipal

Suits filed by plaintiffs, a group of Fitness Clubs, to challenge actions by a city council and a county board of supervisors to lease public property to a YMCA and to enter into a use agreement with a capital contribution ...

Tagged with: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Municipal Supreme Court of Virginia

A motion for protective order filed by the Virginia Resources Authority is rendered moot, says a Shenandoah County Circuit Court, and the court sustains in part and overrules in part the VRA’s plea in bar in the present suit seeking ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Lee Hupp Municipal Shenandoah County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Loudoun County Circuit Court upholds defendant school board’s redistricting decision against a challenge by parents unhappy with the change required by the revised attendance zones. While the court acknowledges its awareness that petitioner has obtained a hardship exemption for ...

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

Parents of elementary school students lose their challenge to respondent school board’s redistricting decision contending the board exceeded its authority, acted arbitrarily and abused its discretion in adopting new school attendance zones; the Loudoun County Circuit Court dismisses the parents’ ...

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

A group of local volunteer fire and rescue departments cannot sue county officials on a claim the county reduced funding in retaliation for plaintiffs’ opposition to local legislation; the 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of the suit by the district court, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Albert Diaz Municipal

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier who won a personal-injury lawsuit against a South Carolina town after she fell into a manhole must reimburse the Department of Labor for benefits she received under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act; the 4th ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Municipal

In this appeal, we consider certain “prohibition” and “discrimination” challenges brought by a wireless telecommunications provider against a local governing body under a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(i), and conclude the Fairfax County, Va., ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Barbara Milano Keenan Municipal