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 ...

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On Oct. 17, 2013, the defendant was driving a van through a parking lot in Norfolk. Defendant traveled in the wrong direction against the angled parking spaces and attempted to make a severe turn into a space. When defendant backed ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury

A Norfolk judge has refused to apply charitable immunity for a private, non-profit college sued by a purported rape victim. The decision was seen by one lawyer as a milestone in a steady erosion of charitable immunity protection for private ...

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

A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses a suit filed by a Norfolk City Jail inmate who alleges doctors at the jail refused to provide him with reasonable medical care, resulting in a brain injury, broken bones and disfigurement. Defendant sheriff admits ...

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At defendant’s trial for taking indecent liberties with his daughter, committed in Norfolk, the Norfolk Circuit Court will admit evidence that defendant committed similar, ongoing and escalating sexual assaults against her during the decade after they moved away from Norfolk, ...

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A marital agreement was not “unconscionable” even though it gave wife the marital home but made husband fully responsible for all costs and debts associated with the home and two other parcels of real estate, gave wife half of husband’s ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jerrauld C. Jones Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court grants The Virginian-Pilot newspaper’s petition for a writ of mandamus to require the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services to provide law enforcement training records from a “T-REX” database maintained by CJS, as agreed to after ...

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