In litigation arising from a boating accident in which a teenage girl’s leg was pulled into the boat’s propellers, plaintiff’s counsel acted improperly in conducting inspections of the boat, with the boat owner’s permission, prior to notifying representatives of the ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

In litigation arising from a boating accident in which a teenage girl’s leg was pulled into the boat’s propellers, a Norfolk Circuit Court upholds a city’s claim of a criminal investigative privilege and sustains the city’s motion to quash a ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A trial court order finding husband in contempt for failing to comply with a couple’s stipulation agreement incorporated into their final divorce decree was a final order, and started the Rule 1:1 clock for husband’s post-trial motions; the Norfolk Circuit ...

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

A screw-up over a screw that may have been used in a boat’s gear shift mechanism threatened to complicate a trial over liability for a 2011 boating accident. A Norfolk judge denied defense motions to dismiss a $30-million lawsuit based ...

Tagged with: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury Products Liability

In this medical malpractice case, a Norfolk Circuit Court denies plaintiff’s motion to compel defendant hospital to produce a four-page “Events & Causal Factors” Charting prepared by a nurse team leader to “identify any possible root causes and/or inappropriate action” ...

Tagged with: Judge Michelle J. Atkins Medical Malpractice Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

At defendant’s trial for sexual assault, the Norfolk trial court will allow defendant to introduce evidence that the complaining witness, who is defendant’s daughter and the subject of a custody dispute, made a prior false accusation that her father had ...

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

On April 28, 2009, the defendant’s tour bus rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle pushing the plaintiff’s vehicle into a car in front of her. The plaintiff’s front air bags deployed and she hit her head on the back headrest of her ...

Tagged with: Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury

A Norfolk Circuit Court rejects defendant’s challenges to a firearm conviction based on assertions that he was found guilty of a crime different than the crime charged in his indictment, and the firearm verdict form was not consistent with the ...

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

A Norfolk Circuit Court says plaintiff parties who paid portions of a $4.3 million settlement of a products liability suit against plaintiff Dollar Tree Stores Inc. and a manufacturer on a claim of a small child choking to death on ...

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

Plaintiff, a 53-year-old career VDOT employee, was driving his orange VDOT pick-up truck on Interstate 64 when traffic slowed for an object in the road. The defendant, a driver of a fuel tanker truck for a local construction company, rear-ended ...

Tagged with: Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury