A Richmond Circuit Court upholds denial of an in-state rate of tuition payment for plaintiff, a student who moved from Oregon to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. The VCU residency committee had before it evidence that the student moved from Oregon ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court upholds a decision by the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek an overpayment of $100,562.37 to plaintiff Oasis Counseling Services, a Medicaid provider that offers intensive, in-home mental health services to children and adolescents, after ...

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In this dispute between a landlord and the soul food restaurant that leased the business premises, a Richmond Circuit Court says the parties’ course of conduct showed the tenant had a month-to-month lease, as the parties never entered into a ...

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Although a father who has joint physical and legal custody of his 10-year-old son must move to Indiana for a higher-paying job transfer, a Richmond Circuit Court declines to order a custody transfer to father. It is clear both parents ...

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Although a party who claims to be the only lineal descendant who can inherit an interest in real estate has presented a certified birth certificate, the Richmond Circuit Court says under Virginia law, the birth certificate is only prima facie ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court says it has no jurisdiction to allow a plaintiff who is appealing to the circuit court a general district court’s dismissal with prejudice of his suit against “Unnamed Quartermaster,” to amend his complaint to identify that ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court overrules a wife’s demurrer to her husband’s suit to terminate spousal support for cohabitation under Va. Code § 20-109(A); because the parties’ agreement was entered into after the enactment of the cohabitation bar provision, husband may ...

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A volunteer who serves on a restoration committee for the vintage Wurlitzer organ at Richmond’s historic Byrd Theatre, and who was injured while attempting to repair the theatre organ, can sue the Byrd Theatre Foundation for negligence; a Richmond Circuit ...

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A tenant who alleges injury from carbon monoxide exposure caused by a defective stove and furnace in her apartment leased from defendants can sue defendant landlord for breach of contract, but the Richmond Circuit Court sustains the landlord’s demurrer to ...

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An invitee who was injured when he used a pull-down stairway to an attic on premises leased by his estranged wife under a written lease has not alleged a negligence claim against the landlord based on fraudulent concealment, as he ...

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