Taxpayers in Fairfax County lacked standing to challenge the school board’s decision to rename a school named for a Confederate general. On December 7, 2015, Defendant Sandra Evans, a school board member, sponsored an amendment to Regulation 8170, which governs ...

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Virginia’s assisted-conception statute, which creates a presumption that a gestational mother’s husband is the father of the conceived child, is unconstitutional as written because it provides parental rights to husbands but not wives, the court held. In 2006, Plaintiff Valerie ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen C. Shannon Virginia Circuit Courts

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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Virginia’s assisted-conception statute, which creates a presumption that a gestational mother’s husband is the father of the conceived child, is unconstitutional as written because it provides parental rights to husbands but not wives, the court held. In 2006, Plaintiff Valerie ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen C. Shannon Virginia Circuit Courts

Analogizing to federal arbitration jurisprudence, the court held that a jury waiver was enforceable even in an agreement alleged to be fraudulently induced, since the challenging party did not allege that the waiver provision itself was procured by fraud. On ...

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The court granted a motion in limine in which Plaintiff Caryn Kesser (Wife) asked the court to preclude Defendant Lawrence Kesser (Husband) from arguing that Wife is bound by claims in a prior proceeding as to the couple’s separation date. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Michelle J. Atkins Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The circuit court affirmed its prior decision to evaluate a ballot initially classified as an “overvote” in the election for House District 94 and to reclassify it as a vote in favor of Respondent David E. Yancey. After certification of ...

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At various times, hundreds of locks have been attached to the Botetourt Street Bridge. Despite many requests, the City of Norfolk has removed locks only when others cut them. Upon viewing the Bridge, the court found that there were about ...

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A bank’s liability for depositing wired funds procured by fraud is generally governed by Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code, the court held, although the bank’s representations to the defrauded party may create a cause of action for negligence. ...

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An ex-husband’s spousal-support obligations were not extinguished by his former wife’s long-term relationship with a man who ultimately moved in next door to her but maintained his own residence, the court held. Kathryn Sue Elmore Gobble (Wife) and Mark Lowell ...

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