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, more than $17,500, will be reduced to $2,700. Background More ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Alexander R. Iden Shenandoah County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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 plane as Hurricane Matthew approached, then filed a claim for ...

Tagged with: Insurance Shenandoah County Circuit Court

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 plane as Hurricane Matthew approached, then filed a claim for ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Clark Andrew Ritchie Shenandoah County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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 property rights, a Shenandoah County Circuit Court says she did ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Lee Hupp Shenandoah County Circuit Court Wills & Trusts

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.

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Lorraine Nordlund Shenandoah County Circuit Court

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 is required to show the video for the school board’s ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV Shenandoah County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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 is required to show the video for the school board’s ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV Shenandoah County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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 County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV ordered the sheriff ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV Shenandoah County Circuit Court

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 three children, Carroll Mauck (defendant) and Roxie Lutz and Bobbie ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Lee Hupp Shenandoah County Circuit Court Wills & Trusts

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.

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Lee Hupp Shenandoah County Circuit Court Wills & Trusts