A couple on the hook for a faulty easement in a real estate deed will get another chance to sue their lawyer after their first suit was deemed untimely. A Roanoke federal judge made it clear in a Nov. 10 ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court grants defendants’ demurrers to a mortgage borrower’s claims alleging defendants violated New York law by attempting to buy back the mortgage note; plaintiff cannot attack the repurchase of the note and the appointment of the substitute ...

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Consumer advocates who claim a Virginia law firm cut corners and overcharged struggling homeowners on high volume foreclosure work won a discovery victory last month. A federal judge swept aside privilege claims and ordered production of communications between the law ...

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In this suit filed by Verizon Wireless and CWS VII LLC challenging denial of an application filed by CWS VII and the trustees of the Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church to build a wireless communications facility on the ACUMC grounds ...

Tagged with: Judge Leonie Brinkema Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this dispute over plaintiff landowners’ right to build a dock on their Smith Mountain Lake property over which defendant power company has a Flowage Easement and federal license, a Roanoke U.S. District Court denies plaintiffs’ motion to remand their ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

A Dickenson County Circuit Court grants plaintiffs a prescriptive easement on Tarzan Road, 15 feet in width, for commercial and residential purposes, based on plaintiffs’ evidence about their use of the road for ingress and egress. The court also enters ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies a homeowners association’s petition requesting the State Building Code Technical Review Board to review the HOA’s citations for local fire code violations following a final determination by a Local Board of Fire Prevention Code Appeals; ...

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An attorney who hoped to secure his legal fee with a mortgage on his client’s property was left unsecured when an earlier $1 million mortgage deed unexpectedly surfaced. The earlier deed of trust had not been indexed by the clerk, ...

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In this lawsuit by the owners of landlocked lots seeking an easement over defendant neighbor’s property, a Loudoun County Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to join other lot owners in the subdivision and neighboring properties that once were part of ...

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Plaintiff family members who own several lots that were once part of a 62-acre parcel with defendant’s contiguous lot have established an easement by necessity to gain access over defendant’s property to reach the nearest public road, a Loudoun County ...

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