A real estate project owner did not breach a reciprocal easement agreement (REA) with a business that bought property within the project by adding common area repair and construction costs to monthly common area maintenance (CAM) fees. Facts RAMCO Virginia’s ...

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A once-missing cellphone and the questions it raised about the credibility of an alleged assault victim led a Stafford County circuit judge to overturn a jury’s guilty verdicts and its recommended 35-year sentence this month. The judge ordered a new ...

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Petitioners Delancey Street Financial LLC and Delancey Street Financial II, LLC initiated this action requesting this court to compel its Clerk to “cause the lien of taxes, levies, and assessments to be marked satisfied upon the list of delinquent lands ...

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Danielle Davis was a 23-year-old graduate student walking home at 8:20 p.m. (dusk) while carrying gro­ceries from WalMart with her fiancee when she was struck while crossing a four-way controlled intersection against a red light. The car made a left ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Settlement Stafford County Circuit Court

On July 27, 2011, plaintiff presented to the defendant general dentist complaining of loose teeth. The defendant diagnosed plaintiff with Stage IV periodontitis, recommended extraction of all but six teeth and dentures as a prosthetic. Plaintiff decided to move forward ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Stafford County Circuit Court

This was a medical malpractice case against spinal surgeon Thomas J. Raley Jr., M.D., and his practice group, Advanced Spine and Pain PLLC, for injury to a patient during spinal surgery called posterior lumbar interbody fusion (“PLIF”). During surgery, Raley ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael E. Levy Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Stafford County Circuit Court

The Supreme Court of Virginia has struck down a $1,200 penalty for a lawyer who refused to allow extra time for an adversary to respond to a lawsuit. In an opinion penned by Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons that outlines ...

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Plaintiff, age 52 and mailman with the US Postal Service for 26 years, fell on April 30, 2011, fracturing his collarbone (or clavicle). The defendant orthopedic surgeon treated the plaintiff, who was a two-pack-a-day cigarette smoker, conservatively with a sling ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles F. Sharp Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Stafford County Circuit Court

A Northern Virginia lawyer says he hopes to leverage his firm’s litigation against child care facilities to push for reforms to prevent children from becoming sexual abuse victims. In the midst of trial preparation in one case of alleged child ...

Tagged with: Negligence Stafford County Circuit Court

On Oct. 10, 2012, the 72-year-old defendant was pulling into a parking spot at a local bank when she lost control of her SUV,  jumped the sidewalk and crashed into the bank’s vestibule. The impact occurred just as the plaintiff, ...

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