A home builder who voluntarily fixed drywall-related problems in customers’ homes is not entitled to reimbursement from its insurer unless the builder can show it was faced with a “legal obligation” to pay “damages,” says a Norfolk U.S. District Court. ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A builder’s note for construction of a new home is not rescindable under the Truth in Lending Act because the home in question was not the builder’s principal dwelling and because the home, in which the builder’s son took a ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although the government appears to concede a delay in notice to the El Salvadorean Consulate violated the Vienna Convention, defendant, who is from El Salvador, cannot show he could enforce such a right or that he suffered any prejudice from ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit for specific performance filed by an LLC requesting that defendants convey their partnership interests in the Lee School Lofts Partnership to Lee School at the price purportedly dictated by the Limited Partnership Agreement, a Richmond U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court says a statute that prohibits weapon possession by a man convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence is not an unconstitutional infringement on his Second Amendment rights, although an unpublished appellate opinion lends some support to the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a commercial lessor’s lease administrator initially agreed with tenant Cost Plus that a shopping center lease required a new tenant as a replacement for Linens N’ Things, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the plain language of the lease ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this copyright dispute between two authors over a script and novel treatment of a story that has morphed from a desert search for a manuscript by the ancient Greek hero Odysseus, to a separate desert search for a secret ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A man who still occupies his home after its sale at foreclosure gets nowhere with his claim to the property based on the legal theory that securitization of his mortgage loan renders his note unenforceable, and an Alexandria U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond Circuit Court grants summary judgment for defendant school administrators accused of violating the due process rights of a female high school student suspended for 10 days after other students observed her performing oral sex on a male student ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

When the captain of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel fell asleep at the wheel and struck plaintiff’s 70-foot yacht docked at the pier at Ocean Marine marina in Portsmouth, the yacht was a constructive total loss based on ...

Tagged with: Admiralty Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District