Legal Opinion
McConnell v. Servinsky Engineering, PLLC
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided May 20, 2014No. Case No. 2:13CV00048PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JAMES P. JONES, District Judge.
In this diversity case claiming damages for failure to properly design a building foundation, the individual defendant, a principal in the defendant engineering firm, has filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings asking that the court dismiss the Complaint against him on the principal *613grounds that it is barred by Virginia’s economic loss rule and lack of privity of contract. The motion has been fully briefed and is ripe for decision.1 For the reasons that follow, I will grant the motion.
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The following facts are taken from the plaintiff’s…
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