Tullidge v. Board of Supervisors

In this appeal from an order imposing sanctions pursuant to Code § 8.01-271.1, the dispositive issue is whether a pro se litigant’s construction of a Virginia statute was “warranted by existing law.”

On December 30, 1987, Augusta County (the county) bought approximately 165 acres of land within the county for relocation of many of its administrative offices from the City of Staunton, where they had been for a number of years. On March 10, 1988, Thomas H. Tullidge, an attorney and registered voter in the county, brought a declaratory judgment action against the Board of Supervisors of Augusta…