In these consolidated cases that pit two entertainment businesses in Waterside Festival Marketplace against Norfolk City Council, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the city is entitled to injunctions to prevent the two businesses from operating as “Entertainment Establishments” and serving ...

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A developer’s alleged agreement to allow a first-floor lessee to enter second-floor premises to install soundproofing material for lessee’s restaurant was an oral easement, not enforceable under the statute of frauds, and a Norfolk Circuit Court grants summary judgment to ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says a prospective buyer who entered a Fannie-Mae-owned home and was seriously injured when he walked down unlit basement stairs that were missing multiple steps at the bottom, can sue Fannie Mae, but not the realty ...

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Although defendant restaurant owner says plaintiff, who alleges he cracked a porcelain crown while eating at defendant’s restaurant, will wind up with better teeth than he had before the incident, a Norfolk Circuit Court says that’s not a reason to ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court has dismissed felony homicide charges against the director of a church daycare center where a seven-week old infant died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Norfolk Circuit Judge Charles E. Poston said showing the center ignored SIDS ...

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A homeowner was the first to breach a contract for construction of an addition and renovations to his Norfolk home when he emailed the contractor ordering him to cease work and stay away unless the contractor had written permission from ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses as “vexatious” a suit filed by an unhappy husband who seeks to set aside a divorce and requests additional remedies against a host of defendants, and awards attorney’s fees to plaintiff’s ex-wife and additional defendants. ...

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In this annual review of the civil commitment of a sexually violent predator under Va. Code § 37.2-910, a Norfolk Circuit Court says the commonwealth has not met its burden for keeping respondent in secure inpatient treatment for a sixth ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says a plaintiff who alleges he bought five condominium units only to have two of them “evaporate” when the owners’ association amended the condominium declaration, may seek a declaratory judgment that the amendment was ineffective under ...

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A husband who has depleted his assets to maintain himself and his family after his newspaper design consulting business came to a virtual standstill can reduce his support obligations beyond the amounts ordered by the JDR court, which ordered the ...

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