Defendant Western Virginia Water Authority is a municipal corporation with no absolute sovereign immunity, and a landowner may sue the Authority for damages allegedly caused by the Authority’s negligent maintenance and operation of a sanitary sewer line; although the Roanoke ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court dismisses an appeal from a juvenile and domestic relations court order finding defendant “not guilty” on a Show Cause Summons (Criminal) , as the appeal is barred by the double jeopardy provisions of the Fifth ...

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In construing an S corporation’s Redemption Agreement to allow an ailing principal to cash out his shares, a Roanoke City Circuit Court says there is “palpable error” on the face of the independent appraiser’s report, which may let the remaining ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court denies plaintiff’s motion for additur in this case in which liability was admitted but plaintiff pleaded no special damages and the jury awarded $0.00. In Bowers v. Sprouse, 254 Va. 428 (1997), the Supreme Court ...

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In two adult sons’ suit against their stepmother as third-party beneficiaries of their parents’ post-nuptial agreement, a Roanoke County Circuit Court says the sons are entitled to only 50 percent of their father’s life insurance proceeds, and the court imposes ...

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In the divorce of an emergency-room physician and his wife, who during the last five years of their 19-year marital partnership, sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into their Craig County farmette, building an equestrian center and raising horses and ...

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Although claimant made the “perfectly understandable decision,” as a single mother with no family in Virginia, suffering from MS, to return to Michigan where she had family and a support network, the Virginia Employment Commission committed no error of law ...

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ROANOKE — Despite barrels of ink and megabytes of bandwidth devoted to the effect of new technology on attorneys and courts, the subject remains a hot topic whenever lawyers and judges get together. At a recent Roanoke bench-bar meeting, participants ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court denies the commonwealth’s request to use two-way videoconferencing technology at defendant’s homicide trial to present testimony of the medical examiner who performed the autopsy; the court’s 10-page opinion surveys the legal framework for use of ...

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Wife is sole owner and employee of her business as a specialized registered nurse who assists workers’ comp claimants in their return to work, and a Roanoke County Circuit Court values the business at $347,000, not the $490,000 figure offered ...

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