Plaintiffs’ claim of a prescriptive easement to use defendants’ road survives demurrer because the complaint alleges exclusive and continuous use, from which plaintiffs’ use under claim of right is presumed. Because plaintiffs have stated a claim, they can seek permanent ...

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The Virginia Employment Commission erred by denying plaintiff’s claim for unemployment benefits because the record does not support its finding that he voluntarily left his employment without good cause. ‘Good cause’ An employee who voluntarily leaves his or her job ...

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Plaintiff alleged that he was misdiag­nosed and received negligent treatment after a left biceps tendon rupture. After an injury at work, the patient was seen in de­fendant’s urgent care clinic. A physician as­sistant diagnosed a forearm and arm strain and ...

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A funeral home that had a 2013 $6,313 judgment against a woman, whose Washington County real estate was partitioned and sold in 2015, with a payment of $3,020 on the funeral home’s lien, had 12 months from the date of ...

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Although a motion to approve rezon­ing and a special use permit in support of a proposed land transaction did not perfectly conform to Va. Code § 15.2- 2286(A)(7), the public hearings conduct­ed, the motions made by town council and the ...

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Plaintiff, a 49-year-old woman, was driving southbound on I-81 for work when the defendant’s decedent left the northbound lanes of I-81, crossed the median, entered the southbound lanes, and collided head-on with the plaintiff’s vehicle. Decedent, a beloved schoolteacher in ...

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The plaintiff, a 44-year-old school counselor, was injured on Nov. 13, 2009, in a collision on I-81 in Bristol. She was a passenger in a car driven by her son when it was struck by a tractor-trailer. Her son then ...

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Plaintiff contended that the defendant OB/GYN failed to appropriately monitor her mother’s labor, recognize and respond to fetal distress, and timely order a C-section, which resulted in anoxic encephalopathy with severe and permanent neurological injury and cerebral palsy. The primary ...

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A Washington Circuit Court grants a petition for name change pursuant to Va. Code 8.01-217 filed by a man who wishes everyone in his household to use the same surname, after he entered into a civil union with his male ...

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A Washington Circuit Court grants a petition for name change pursuant to Va. Code § 8.01-217 filed by a man who wishes to have everyone on his household use the same surname, after he entered into a civil union with ...

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