Richmond, VA - Car wreck personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, Kashawn L. Smith, an infant, by his mother and next friend, Latoya Hopes, who sued Vernon Bond on a personal injury auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $2 million in damages and/or injuries as a direct result of a car wreck caused by Bond.... More...    $0 (02-03-2021 - VA)

Daniel Sanchez was placed on supervision after serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for a federal firearm conviction pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Within three months, he had violated the terms of his supervised release by, among other things, threatening to kill his 14-year-old daughter and her mother. At his revocation hearing, Sanchez sought to contest ... More...    $0 (06-14-2018 - VA)

Michael Maynes raises various assignments of error arising from his trial and
convictions for four counts of sex trafficking by use of force, fraud, or coercion in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in
violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a) and 1594(c). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the
convictions.
I.
Michael Maynes w... More...    $0 (01-18-2018 - VA)

In 2012, while seventeen years old, appellant was adjudicated delinquent for two instances
of violating Code § 18.2-248(G), possession with intent to distribute imitation cocaine. The
violations of Code § 18.2-248(G) would have been non-violent felonies if appellant had been an
adult when he committed the offenses. Appellant does not dispute that he was over the age of
fiftee... More...    $0 (03-28-2016 - VA)

“When reviewing a trial court’s refusal to give a proffered jury instruction, we view the
evidence in the light most favorable to the proponent of the instruction,” in this case appellant.
Commonwealth v. Vaughn. Toward the end of April 2012, appellant’s relationship with his girlfriend, Takea Turner
(Turner), seriously deteriorated. Appellant testified that he assumed that Turner... More...    $0 (03-28-2016 - VA)

In this domestic relations proceeding, the circuit court in its final order of divorce denied a motion by Cheyep Nkopchieu (mother) to enter a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) permitting her to attach a retirement account belonging to Raymond Bernard Minlend (father) for the sole purpose of paying father’s very considerable child support arrearage of over $28,000. On appeal, we hold tha... More...    $0 (12-20-2011 - VA)

William Breit (“Breitâ€�) appeals the order of the Circuit Court for the City of Virginia Beach (“trial courtâ€�) sustaining Beverley Mason’s (“motherâ€�) and L.F.’s (“childâ€�) pleas in bar to Breit’s petition to determine parentage of L.F. Breit contends the trial court erred in holding that he is barred from asserting that he is the legal father of L.F. L.F. was conceived as a res... More...    $0 (12-28-2011 - VA)

The primary issue in this appeal is whether the City of Lexington, which owned and operated a riverside park that included a low-head dam, owed a duty to warn its invitees of the dangers posed by the dam. We also consider whether the circuit court properly struck claims of gross negligence and willful and wanton negligence.

BACKGROUND

On April 23, 2006, Charles O. Volpe (“Charl... More...    $0 (05-21-2011 - VA)

Appellee PBM Products, LLC (PBM) filed this action pursuant to the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1125(a), against Appellant Mead Johnson & Company, LLC (Mead Johnson) alleging that Mead Johnson distributed more than 1.5 million direct-to-consumer mailers that falsely claimed PBM’s baby formula products were inferior to Mead Johnson’s baby formula products. After a jury found that Mead Johnson had en... More...    $0 (04-20-2011 - VA)

In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court erred when it sustained the demurrer of Billy Bradley Evans, II (“Evans�) to the amended complaint of Hannah Leigh Evans (“Hannah�).1

I. Facts and Proceedings Below

Hannah, an infant suing by her mother, filed an amended complaint against Evans, her father, which alleged that Evans placed Hannah, then four years old, “... More...    $0 (06-10-2010 - VA)

The primary question that we consider in this appeal is whether adults who agree to supervise and care for a child owe a duty to exercise reasonable care in the supervision and care of that child.

II.

Michael H. Kellermann, administrator of the estate of his daughter, Jaimee Elizabeth Kellermann, filed a wrongful death action against Paul McDonough and Paula McDonough (the McDonoughs... More...    $0 (11-05-2009 - VA)

In this case, we consider whether Virginia’s "Partial Birth Infanticide" Act, Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-71.1 (the "Virginia Act"), is facially unconstitutional. After the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Virginia Act in April 2003, but before its July 1, 2003 effective date, Richmond Medical Center and its owner and medical director, Dr. William Fitzhugh (collectively, "Dr. Fitzhugh"), commenced... More...    $0 (07-03-2009 - VA)

In this wrongful death action, the sole issue is whether a plaintiff’s proffered medical expert witness satisfied the criteria of Code § 8.01-581.20 to testify on the standard of care in the defendant’s specialty. Because we find that the record clearly demonstrates the witness met the statutory “knowledgeâ€� requirement and “active clinical practiceâ€� requirement, see Wright v. Kaye, 26... More...    $0 (01-16-2009 - VA)

In this appeal involving a medical malpractice action, the principal issue we consider is whether the circuit court erred in failing to require the administrators of a decedent’s estate to elect between their alternative claims for wrongful death, Code § 8.01-50, and a survival action for personal injuries to the decedent, Code § 8.01-25, which the administrators alleged arose from the same ac... More...    $325000 (01-16-2009 - VA)

Matthew Edward Billips, then a juvenile, was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy of a child under the age of 13 years, and one count of soliciting a child to commit sodomy. The juvenile and domestic relations district court certified the case to the circuit court, where Billips was found guilty of all three offenses in a jury trial. The circuit court continued the case for a presen... More...    $0 (11-02-2007 - VA)

On September 11, 2002, the mother, then approximately thirty-four weeks pregnant with the infant, was involved in a motor vehicle accident. She arrived at the Inova Fairfax Hospital emergency room shortly before 9:00 p.m. that night, complaining of chest pain in the area of where her seat belt would have been. The fetal heart rate was within the normal range at that point, and the mother ... More...    $0 (08-14-2007 - VA)

On July 31, 2000, when Cheyenne Knight was born to appellant and Alana Jackson, she ... More...    $0 (11-04-2003 - VA)

The lawsuit, filed in 1997, alleged that landlords Wallace and Florence Rich allowed lead-b... More...    $2000000 (04-15-2003 - VA)

Jonathan Ray Adams ("Jonathan") was born on April 5, 1980, the natural chil... More...    $60000 (04-19-2002 - VA)

This appeal involves issues resulting from the entry of two nonsuit orders and the subsequent imposition of contempt penalties and monetary sanctions, including the dismissal with prejudice of the two motions for judgment ostensibly nonsuited. The motions for judgment were filed May 4, 1999, one on behalf of Emily Katherine James and the other on behalf of Mary Elizabeth James, infants then ag... More...    $0 (04-19-2002 - VA)

Kathryn Riddick (an infant who sues by her mother, Nettie Ridd- ick), Kellee Chambers, Tracee Bynum, Lavina Falzone (an infant who sues by her mother, Vina Falzone), Nettie Riddick, Vina Falzone, Jonelle Whitley, and Latasha Wilson (collectively the "Riddick plain- tiffs"), filed civil actions in the Eastern District of Virginia against multiple defendants, including Wilson High School coach ... More...    $0 (09-21-2000 - VA)

On July 27, 1996, appellee Kimberly M. Jackman was a tenant in the Kings Arms Apartments in Virginia Beach, owned by appellant Southeast Mortgage and Investment Corporation and managed by appellant Southeast Apartments Management, Inc. (collectively, the owner). At the time, the owner employed one Douglas Turner as the Apartments' "maintenance supervisor;" he had been so employed for approximatel... More...    $12500 (02-26-1999 - VA)

Medical malpractice - wrongful death. Mrs. O'Dell was admitted to the hospital for the delivery of her third child. Her attending obstetrician ordered a Group B Strep test. The "rapid test" for Group B Strep was reported as negative. However, the more reliable culture test was reported (approximately 24 hours later) as positive by the hospital pathology department. Mother and apparently health... More...    $175000 (03-04-1999 - VA)

Medical malpractice - The mother of the decedent was admitted to Virginia Baptist Hospital to the service of the defendant obstetrician for induction of labor and delivery. Prostin gel was inserted at 8:30 a.m. and Pitocin was begun at 11:30 a.m., as ordered by the obstetrician. An epidural block was administered at 7:30 p.m. and at approximately 9:00 p.m. The mother was allowed to push since sh... More...    $200000 (02-06-1999 - VA)

Medical malpractice - The mother of the decedent was admitted to Virginia Baptist Hospital to the service of the defendant obstetrician for induction of labor and delivery. Prostin gel was inserted at 8:30 a.m. and Pitocin was begun at 11:30 a.m., as ordered by the obstetrician. An epidural block was administered at 7:30 p.m. and at approximately 9:00 p.m. the mother was allowed to push since sh... More...    $200000 (01-12-1999 - VA)