The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear Blacksburg’s appeal in the town’s efforts to strictly regulate a proposed large-scale retail development, widely assumed to be a Wal-Mart. The writ, granted yesterday, is posted here by The Roanoke Times. Previously, the ...
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Read More »Montgomery County today filed suit in Richmond Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of the state’s public funding of a planned intermodal rail facility. The complaint is here. In a news release, county leaders lay out their case for opposition to ...
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Read More »A second lawsuit challenging the authority of a Virginia homeowners’ association has been thrown out of court. The winners last week were property owner groups in both the large-scale gated community of Lake Holiday in Frederick County and the small Dogwood Valley ...
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Read More »A second lawsuit challenging the authority of a Virginia homeowners’ association has been thrown out of court. The winners last week were property owner groups in both the large-scale gated community of Lake Holiday in Frederick County and the small Dogwood Valley ...
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Read More »The latest chapter in the troubled saga of the Koger Management Group is not good news for its community association clients. As reported by the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, the company’s former head is seeking to change his bankruptcy status from ...
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Read More »The latest lawsuit over development in Blacksburg concerns a proposed Sonic drive-in, according to the Roanoke Times. A company fighting to build a big-box retail store (think Wal-Mart) in the college town claims that local authorities rejected the Sonic as ...
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Read More »Lawyers who follow the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals know the Richmond-based court is not generous with published opinions. According to a cover story in the June 2008 ABA Law Journal, the court, which has been short-handed for years, ...
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Read More »Add Front Royal to the list of Virginia localities where the Board of Zoning Appeals was accused of being too generous. Warren County Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp this week nullified a variance that would have allowed a tall addition ...
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Read More »Add Front Royal to the list of Virginia localities where the Board of Zoning Appeals was accused of being too generous. Warren County Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp this week nullified a variance that would have allowed a tall addition ...
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Read More »Bedford County Attorney Carl Boggess opines that the county is free to develop recreational facilities on a plot of land deeded in 1832 “to erect a poorhouse and work house forever.” As reported by the Roanoke Times, Boggess concludes that ...
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