The case involved a 52-year-old Norfolk Southern Railroad locomotive engineer who was injured on May 1, 2011, in the Waynesboro Yard. At approximately 11:00 p.m., he tripped over a metal “joint” bar that had previously been removed from one of ...

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Police officers who discovered defendant unresponsive in his car in a private parking lot near a restaurant, and who ultimately opened his unlocked door and prodded him before he woke up cursing in a slurred voice, did not violate defendant’s ...

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A police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to block defendant’s car in the parking lot of a convenience store after receiving a tip about a drunken driver and the Roanoke City Circuit Court grants defendant’s motion to suppress. No ...

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A husband who has accumulated arrearages in payments he was ordered to make to wife under the parties’ final divorce decree cannot discharge $50,237.96 in debt to wife in his Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding, says a Roanoke City Circuit Court. ...

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Although a necessary job transfer for her new husband constituted a material change in circumstances, a mother who wants to move her sons, ages 11 and 14, to Ohio has not carried her burden to prove the move would be ...

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In plaintiff property owners’ suit alleging defendant railroad’s operation of a rail line is a “public nuisance” and asserting a claim for just compensation, the Roanoke City Circuit Court overrules defendant’s demurrers which are accompanied by materials that assert additional ...

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In plaintiff’s suit for the wrongful death of her husband from fungal meningitis allegedly resulting from an epidural injection of a contaminated steroid produced by a compounding pharmacy and used by defendant health care providers, a Roanoke City Circuit Court ...

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On appeal from a JDR court decision awarding custody of two girls, ages 3 and 7, to their biological mother, a Roanoke City Circuit Court grants the motion of their mother’s sister and declines to exercise jurisdiction over this matter, ...

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DNA paternity testing produced by plaintiff is a “birth record” under Va. Code § 64.1-5.1(4)(i) and plaintiff is “excepted” from the proof of paternity requirements of Code § 64.1-5.1(4) in order to claim an interest in her deceased birth father’s ...

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A Roanoke jury has awarded $660,000 to the children of an 89-year-old woman who died after a fall at an orthopedic clinic. The verdict came after the clinic’s insurance company offered only $200,000 to resolve the case, according to a ...

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