The Virginia Court docket of Appeals dominated that allegedly defamatory statements on a circulating petition to take away a house owner’s affiliation president lacked the enough “sting” to successfully hurt the plaintiff’s skilled fame as a licensed lawyer/enterprise proprietor.
In a Feb. 14 opinion, the appeals court docket affirmed a circuit court docket’s ruling dismissing defamation claims introduced by the plaintiff, Theodore Theologis, an lawyer who owns an actual property brokerage and property administration firm. Theologis, who was additionally elected to function president for a three-year time period in 2020 for his householders’ affiliation, sued 5 fellow townhome affiliation members, Mark Weiler, Patricia James, Daria Collins, Khai Wisler and Janis Baldwin, for allegedly criticizing his efficiency and inspiring different householders to vote him out of workplace, the opinion mentioned.
