On Nov. 3, 2015, the plaintiff, 59, was picked up by his octo­genarian father out­side of his apartment building. Because of the plaintiff’s co-mor­bidities, including a prior stroke, toe amputation, and pancreas and kidney transplants, he did not drive. The ...

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A homeowner who alleges a water and sewage backup in his home is attributable to a clog in the town’s sewer line beyond the homeowner’s property, in a portion of the sewer line made less visible by a partially paved-over ...

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Although two Texas-domiciled defendants have been transacting business in Virginia by buying fiber optic cable from plaintiff Virginia corporation for a number of years, none of plaintiff company’s alleged causes of action are based upon a breach of any duty ...

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A federal judge has blocked Volkswagen’s effort to move a group of novel lawsuits over VW’s so-called “dirty diesels” to federal court. Lawsuits filed by Lynchburg attorney James B. Feinman demand loaner cars or rental cars for owners of the ...

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Virginia owners of so-called “dirty diesels” sold by Volkswagen Group of America Inc. are hoping to keep their bid for loaner cars before a Roanoke County judge. Volkswagen moved the case to federal court last week, but Lynchburg lawyer Jimmie ...

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Hundreds of owners of Volkswagen diesel-powered cars are asking a Virgin­ia judge to order the automaker to pro­vide replacement vehicles, claiming the emissions-cheating cars violate Virginia law and constitute a public nuisance. Roanoke County Circuit Judge James R. Swanson is ...

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The family of a man killed in 2010 when he was crushed between two lift trucks at his Lynchburg workplace won a $4.2 million award from a Roanoke jury last month. The verdict came against NACCO Materials Handling Group Inc. ...

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Although a Roanoke City Circuit Court ordered husband, who has been under guardianship of his mother and then his brother beginning in 1968, in 2001 to pay $250 in monthly spousal support after his 1993 Virginia divorce from wife and ...

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A Roanoke judge may have advanced the cause of judicial efficiency with a rare use of a three-person jury in a civil dispute this month.

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Although the Salem Circuit Court finds a material change in circumstances, the court denies mother’s petition to move with the couple’s 8-year-old son to Henderson, Tenn., with her new husband, and denies father’s petition to change primary custody from mother ...

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