The Docket: Local court roundup for 7.14.22

Chesterfield Circuit Court

North American Chassis Pool Cooperative, LLC v. OBX International, Inc.
Plaintiff says defendant rented equipment and has failed to pay, owing $41,732.
Attorneys: P. George Eliades II of The Eliades Law Firm
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002163

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Dog Wash Café Grooming & Self-Wash, LLC d/b/a Dog Wash Café Grooming-Windward; Joseph Coalla; and Veronica Coalla
Plaintiff says the Georgia business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $184,410.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Timothy A. Hennigan of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002176

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Baloru Enterprises, LLC d/b/a Stow’s Office Furniture; and Huetzin Rodriguez Carrillo
Plaintiff says the Oklahoma business is in default of a future receivables factoring agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $118,718,50.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Timothy A. Hennigan of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002177

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. CPR Construction Cleaning, LLC d/b/a CPR Construction Cleaning; Joseph Maez; and Corina Burton
Plaintiff says the Arizona business is in default of a loan agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $153,600.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002179

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Terry Bradley d/b/a Bradley’s Wrecker Service, Inc.
Plaintiff says the Tennessee business is in default of a future receivables factoring agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $66,126.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen, Timothy A. Hennigan and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002180

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Central States Disposition Partners, LLC d/b/a CSDP; and David Cochran
Plaintiff says the Texas business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $82,877.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002183

Henrico Circuit Court

Shaghayegh Mishani, M.D. v. Patient First Richmond Medical Group, LLC; W. Kent Schuele, M.D.; and Jennifer Cericola, RN
Plaintiff alleges wrongful termination after she raised job health and safety concerns to her Newton Road location and headquarters, especially about compliance with COVID-19 protocols and pressure to order inappropriate testing and/or treatment, and says defendants told her to “Get up and go see patients,” even though at the time she was suffering COVID symptoms and awaiting test results. Plaintiff seeks damages of $25,350,000.
Attorneys: Richard F. Hawkins III of The Hawkins Law Firm
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22004011

Dianne Giles and Wesley Giles v. Hamlet Condominium Homeowners’ Association, Inc.
Plaintiffs say that defendant deliberately concealed that there was a serious problem with the presence of asbestos embedded in the mastic glue underneath the floor tiling when they purchased the unit in 2013 and continuing through at least all of 2021, a problem that was exacerbated by significant water leakage beginning in April 2018, which aggravated their son’s health problems and caused significant damage to the unit. Plaintiffs seek compensatory damages of $80,000, and punitive, $350,000.
Attorneys: Henry W. McLaughlin of The Law Office of Henry McLaughlin
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22004073

Kash Patel v. Politico, LLC
Plaintiff says defendant acted maliciously in 2019 to target and destroy his career as an attorney, senior advisor and civil servant, in a series of articles and tweets that directly and by implication falsely accused him of lying, deceit and unethical work in his role as an attorney and former member of the President’s (Trump’s) National Security Council, including such tweets as “top Nunes former trusted advisor planted inside the White House who got caught playing ‘Ukraine expert.’” Plaintiff asks compensatory damages of $25 million and punitive, $350,000.
Attorneys: Steven S. Biss
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22004096

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Frontier Health Services, LLC d/b/a Caremax Pharmacy; Geipe Pharmacy, LLC d/b/a Caremax Pharmacy; Chikamnele Etunnuh; and Uche Etunnuh
Plaintiff says the Baltimore business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $329,946.77.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen, Timothy A. Hennigan and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002180

Richmond Circuit Court

Karla Mariayesk Santana Freitez v. Newport Manor Richmond, LLC d/b/a Reserve South; BH Management Services, LLC; and BH Management Services, Inc.
Plaintiff claims damages of $200,000 she says she received on July 8, 2020, when she lost traction while carrying several grocery bags on a metal ramp installed directly in front of her apartment and fell.
Attorneys: Jess Baez and T. Noel Brooks of Brooks & Baez
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22002790

Shanequa Ponton, as administrator of the estate of Shawn Michael Coverton v. Tidewater Ambulance Service, Inc. d/b/a American Medical Response; and Johnston-Willis Limited d/b/a Johnston-Willis Hospital
Plaintiff says on Dec. 10, 2020, Tidewater Ambulance, while providing transportation services, negligently tore Coverton’s tracheostomy tube from his airway, failed to reinsert it and failed to recognize that the tube site was bleeding into his lungs, and that Johnston-Willis negligently tore the tube from his airway and negligently reinserted it, resulting in a hypoxic brain injury. Plaintiff claims damages of $2.4 million.
Attorneys: W. Charles Meltmar of The Cochran Firm
Filed: 7/6/2022
CL22002941

Green Energy Ventures, LLC v. Birchwood Power Partners, L.P.; Julie A. Caiafa; and Mark T. Mellana
Plaintiff alleges breach of a confidentiality agreement and fraud related to the acquisition and development of real property at 10900 Birchwood Drive, King George, and says defendants improperly induced plaintiff to disclose protected proprietary information, thereby leading plaintiff to believe a mutually beneficial transaction was imminent, and that defendants used and disclosed that information to unlawfully and unilaterally profit at plaintiff’s expense. The property is the former site of the Birchwood Power Facility, a coal-fired power plant that produced energy for Dominion Energy Inc. from November 1996 until it was deactivated on March 1, 2021, and plaintiff says after contacting defendants and executing the agreement, they provided confidential information for the purposes of conducting due diligence and assessing the viability of plans to develop a data center on the site, and that defendants used that information and plaintiff’s zoning and land-use endeavors to increase the market value of the property. Plaintiff seeks monetary damages of at least $100 million.
Attorneys: Charles C.H. Lee, Matthew C. Long and Zackary J. Rogers of Moore & Lee
Filed: 7/6/2022
CL22003031

Chesterfield Circuit Court

North American Chassis Pool Cooperative, LLC v. OBX International, Inc.
Plaintiff says defendant rented equipment and has failed to pay, owing $41,732.
Attorneys: P. George Eliades II of The Eliades Law Firm
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002163

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Dog Wash Café Grooming & Self-Wash, LLC d/b/a Dog Wash Café Grooming-Windward; Joseph Coalla; and Veronica Coalla
Plaintiff says the Georgia business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $184,410.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Timothy A. Hennigan of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002176

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Baloru Enterprises, LLC d/b/a Stow’s Office Furniture; and Huetzin Rodriguez Carrillo
Plaintiff says the Oklahoma business is in default of a future receivables factoring agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $118,718,50.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Timothy A. Hennigan of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002177

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. CPR Construction Cleaning, LLC d/b/a CPR Construction Cleaning; Joseph Maez; and Corina Burton
Plaintiff says the Arizona business is in default of a loan agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $153,600.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002179

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Terry Bradley d/b/a Bradley’s Wrecker Service, Inc.
Plaintiff says the Tennessee business is in default of a future receivables factoring agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $66,126.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen, Timothy A. Hennigan and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002180

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Central States Disposition Partners, LLC d/b/a CSDP; and David Cochran
Plaintiff says the Texas business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $82,877.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002183

Henrico Circuit Court

Shaghayegh Mishani, M.D. v. Patient First Richmond Medical Group, LLC; W. Kent Schuele, M.D.; and Jennifer Cericola, RN
Plaintiff alleges wrongful termination after she raised job health and safety concerns to her Newton Road location and headquarters, especially about compliance with COVID-19 protocols and pressure to order inappropriate testing and/or treatment, and says defendants told her to “Get up and go see patients,” even though at the time she was suffering COVID symptoms and awaiting test results. Plaintiff seeks damages of $25,350,000.
Attorneys: Richard F. Hawkins III of The Hawkins Law Firm
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22004011

Dianne Giles and Wesley Giles v. Hamlet Condominium Homeowners’ Association, Inc.
Plaintiffs say that defendant deliberately concealed that there was a serious problem with the presence of asbestos embedded in the mastic glue underneath the floor tiling when they purchased the unit in 2013 and continuing through at least all of 2021, a problem that was exacerbated by significant water leakage beginning in April 2018, which aggravated their son’s health problems and caused significant damage to the unit. Plaintiffs seek compensatory damages of $80,000, and punitive, $350,000.
Attorneys: Henry W. McLaughlin of The Law Office of Henry McLaughlin
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22004073

Kash Patel v. Politico, LLC
Plaintiff says defendant acted maliciously in 2019 to target and destroy his career as an attorney, senior advisor and civil servant, in a series of articles and tweets that directly and by implication falsely accused him of lying, deceit and unethical work in his role as an attorney and former member of the President’s (Trump’s) National Security Council, including such tweets as “top Nunes former trusted advisor planted inside the White House who got caught playing ‘Ukraine expert.’” Plaintiff asks compensatory damages of $25 million and punitive, $350,000.
Attorneys: Steven S. Biss
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22004096

Kapitus Servicing, Inc. v. Frontier Health Services, LLC d/b/a Caremax Pharmacy; Geipe Pharmacy, LLC d/b/a Caremax Pharmacy; Chikamnele Etunnuh; and Uche Etunnuh
Plaintiff says the Baltimore business is in default of a forward purchase agreement and seeks judgment in the principal amount of $329,946.77.
Attorneys: Nhon H. Nguyen, Timothy A. Hennigan and Charles D. Waters of Nguyen|Ballato
Filed: 6/30/2022
CL22002180

Richmond Circuit Court

Karla Mariayesk Santana Freitez v. Newport Manor Richmond, LLC d/b/a Reserve South; BH Management Services, LLC; and BH Management Services, Inc.
Plaintiff claims damages of $200,000 she says she received on July 8, 2020, when she lost traction while carrying several grocery bags on a metal ramp installed directly in front of her apartment and fell.
Attorneys: Jess Baez and T. Noel Brooks of Brooks & Baez
Filed: 7/1/2022
CL22002790

Shanequa Ponton, as administrator of the estate of Shawn Michael Coverton v. Tidewater Ambulance Service, Inc. d/b/a American Medical Response; and Johnston-Willis Limited d/b/a Johnston-Willis Hospital
Plaintiff says on Dec. 10, 2020, Tidewater Ambulance, while providing transportation services, negligently tore Coverton’s tracheostomy tube from his airway, failed to reinsert it and failed to recognize that the tube site was bleeding into his lungs, and that Johnston-Willis negligently tore the tube from his airway and negligently reinserted it, resulting in a hypoxic brain injury. Plaintiff claims damages of $2.4 million.
Attorneys: W. Charles Meltmar of The Cochran Firm
Filed: 7/6/2022
CL22002941

Green Energy Ventures, LLC v. Birchwood Power Partners, L.P.; Julie A. Caiafa; and Mark T. Mellana
Plaintiff alleges breach of a confidentiality agreement and fraud related to the acquisition and development of real property at 10900 Birchwood Drive, King George, and says defendants improperly induced plaintiff to disclose protected proprietary information, thereby leading plaintiff to believe a mutually beneficial transaction was imminent, and that defendants used and disclosed that information to unlawfully and unilaterally profit at plaintiff’s expense. The property is the former site of the Birchwood Power Facility, a coal-fired power plant that produced energy for Dominion Energy Inc. from November 1996 until it was deactivated on March 1, 2021, and plaintiff says after contacting defendants and executing the agreement, they provided confidential information for the purposes of conducting due diligence and assessing the viability of plans to develop a data center on the site, and that defendants used that information and plaintiff’s zoning and land-use endeavors to increase the market value of the property. Plaintiff seeks monetary damages of at least $100 million.
Attorneys: Charles C.H. Lee, Matthew C. Long and Zackary J. Rogers of Moore & Lee
Filed: 7/6/2022
CL22003031

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