In this suit by a homeowners’ association challenging a developer’s grant of exclusive access to a single cable company as supplier of communications services to residents, an Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses the association’s antitrust claims but declines to dismiss ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this real estate dispute over the parties’ 2007 agreement granting an easement to construct a roadway and later sale of plaintiff’s property, a Fairfax Circuit Court dismisses plaintiff’s claims for slander of title, intentional interference with contract and abuse ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan C. Thacher Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

In this dispute between plaintiff gas transmission company and defendant property owners over the scope of an easement over defendants’ land, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff partial summary judgment on defendants’ claim that the suit is barred by ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although defendant homeowners challenge plaintiff homeowners association’s right to collect dues assessment to support litigation by the association, the Loudoun County Circuit Court upholds action by the association board of directors that led to the assessments, and enters judgment for ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

The Supreme Court of Virginia has approved $272,096 in sanctions against a lawyer and his client in a case arising out of a Northern Virginia real estate listing contract. The solo lawyer stung by the decision said the size of ...

Tagged with: Judge Jonathan C. Thacher Justice Donald W. Lemons Real Estate Sanctions Supreme Court of Virginia

Real estate brokers would be protected from civil or criminal liability for running a false advertisement about property if the inaccurate information came from the owner, under a bill pending in the House Courts of Justice Committee. House Bill 724, ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Real Estate

Although the general public had for years used a “C.C.C. Road” built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps on private property in Highland County, the Supreme Court of Virginia says the trial court erred in finding that plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

FAIRFAX (AP) The Episcopal Church should be restored as the owner of several historic churches in Virginia, a Fairfax circuit judge has ruled, years after the denomination was essentially evicted by local congregations dismayed with Episcopal leadership’s liberal theology. In ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Real Estate

A title company’s claim, as subrogee of a mortgage company, against a defendant accrued when defendant did not meet its contractual obligation to secure the mortgage company’s security interest in the property with a first-priority deed of trust, and a ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a property owner contends the .0355 acre parcel in this condemnation proceeding has been “legally improved” for development of a hotel, through completion of site plans, negotiation of a hotel franchise agreement and approval of permits, the Norfolk U.S. ...

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