An email sent by an executor of the es­tate of the 70-percent owner of a Virginia Beach mini-golf course to the 30-percent owner and president proposing a resolu­tion of their dispute satisfied the stat­utory requirements for a valid written demand ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court grants the com­monwealth’s motion in limine to offer ev­idence at trial of defendant’s prior crimi­nal and sexual conduct toward his minor stepdaughter “T.G.” at his trial for forcible sodomy, indecent liberties, abduction with intent to defile, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court

On July 27, 2010, plaintiff called defendant’s office due to pain he had been experiencing for approximately two weeks from a badly decayed tooth (#31, a lower right 2nd molar). A different dentist had advised plaintiff 18 months prior that ...

Tagged with: Judge Jerrauld C. Jones Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Norfolk Circuit Court

In a disabled adult’s suit seeking damages for second-degree burns she suffered in 2011 while in the care of defendant home health agency’s employee/independent contractor, the defendant insurance company may not use a plea in bar to challenge the agency’s ...

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

A repo man was an independent contractor, not an employee or agent of Toyota or the recovery company, and a plaintiff who alleges he was injured when trying to access his daughter’s car, which was being repossessed, may not sue ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Although the sequence of transfers documented by plaintiff does not show a written instrument transferring the interest in a note and deed of trust on plaintiff’s residence to HSBC, the entity that appointed a substitute trustee to foreclose on the ...

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

An LLC’s operating agreement does not require a super-majority vote to approve a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the company, a maritime engineering training school, but the Norfolk Circuit Court says the issue of the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Pursuant to this court’s Oct. 9, 2015 order, defendant was required to make certain scheduled payments to purge his contempt charge, as well as to pay plaintiff’s costs and reasonable attorney’s fees, and the Norfolk Circuit Court orders defendant to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff was operating his pick-up truck in the City of Norfolk when a commercial delivery truck ran a stop sign and struck his vehicle in a significant collision. Plaintiff’s left side and shoulder were injured as a result of the ...

Tagged with: Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury

Despite pleas by the mothers of two minor beneficiaries, a Chesapeake judge has refused to remove the administrator for the estate of a sailor killed in a motorcycle crash. The judge’s ruling turned aside efforts to switch the person in ...

Tagged with: Judge John W. Brown Norfolk Circuit Court