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Shenandoah County school name challenges dismissed
An effort to reverse the decision by the Shenandoah County School Board to retire the names of two public schools named after Confederate veterans has failed. In the case, Alger […]
Attorneys’ fees awarded in mayoral removal case
Where the commonwealth nonsuited this case arising from a petition to remove defendant as the mayor of Strasburg, defendant is entitled to an attorney’s fee award. However, the requested amount, […]
Misrepresentations void policy for airplane damage
A policy covering the defendant’s airplane was void ab initio based on his false statements about the status and location of the plane. He’d sought last-minute coverage for his already-dilapidated […]
Misrepresentations void policy for airplane damage
A policy covering the defendant’s airplane was void ab initio based on his false statements about the status and location of the plane. He’d sought last-minute coverage for his already-dilapidated […]
Pressured Wife Did Not ‘Abandon’ Spouse
Although a woman left the marital home six weeks before husband died, and moved in with her daughter to avoid her terminally ill husband’s pressure to sign documents reducing her […]
Judge orders specific performance of plea deal
A circuit judge upheld a plea deal last month in a cigarette-trafficking case, questioning the credibility of a prosecutor who denied there was a deal to drop additional charges.
Sheriff Must Show Bus Video to School Board
A video from a public school bus’s surveillance system showing conduct by the boys’ basketball teams that school officials termed “appalling” and “violent” is school property and the sheriff’s department […]
Sheriff Must Show Bus Video to School Board
A video from a public school bus’s surveillance system showing conduct by the boys’ basketball teams that school officials termed “appalling” and “violent” is school property and the sheriff’s department […]
School board prevails in video tug-of-war
A judge affirmed the authority of Virginia school boards in a recent ruling that a county sheriff could not withhold a surveillance video of a controversial school bus incident. Shenandoah […]
Jury found decedent’s 2012 holographic will to be invalid – Verdict for Plaintiffs
Plaintiffs alleged that a self-proving will dated Oct. 7, 2004, was the last true will and testament of the decedent. That will divided the decedent’s estate fairly equally between her […]
Will contest leads to order for exhumation
Citing “red flags of giant proportions,” a circuit judge has ordered the exhumation of a Shenandoah County man who died in 2011 and whose $2 million estate is at issue in a will contest.
Treatment of colon impaction led to perforation, plaintiff claims – Defense Verdict
Plaintiff, a female in her mid-fifties with a family history of cancer, was referred for colon cancer screening/ colonoscopy in July 2003. The procedure was terminated for fear of perforation. […]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Car crash after back surgery causes additional injuries
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with cardiologist over treatment of strokes
- Negligence and Tort- Ice pack use during tattoo removal causes frostbite
- Workers’ Compensation Struck by metal door at workplace, plaintiff sustains subdural hematoma
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Woman struck by vehicle loses senses of taste, smell
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Pedestrian struck by car while in parking lot
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Driver fractures right leg in tractor-trailer collision
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Motorcyclist hit by car suffers two broken wrists
- Medical Malpractice – Young patient commits suicide while on psychoactive drugs
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Art teacher’s hand injured in collision
Opinion Digests
- Criminal – Sentence for ‘unusually heinous’ conduct is affirmed
- Criminal – Sentence wasn’t unreasonable despite deportation consequences
- Appeals – Waiver in plea agreement forecloses most arguments on appeal
- Appeals – Appellant’s informal brief forfeited appellate review
- Employment – Failure to exhaust administrative remedies dooms Title VII suit
- Jurors – Dishonest juror didn’t violate defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights
- Criminal – Motion to suppress backpack denied where defendant abandoned item
- Civil Rights – Officer denied immunity in fatal shooting case
- Civil Rights – No qualified immunity on excessive force police K-9 claim
- Criminal – Probable cause includes dog’s positive alert for narcotics
- Criminal – Evidence supports obstruction of justice conviction
- Search & Seizure – Inventory search exception applies to warrantless search
