Argos Utilities Corp. v. Perrin

By Judge Clifford R. Weckstein

As the parties presented this case, the threshold issue was whether venue should be transferred from the City of Roanoke. During oral argument about venue, the court asked whether a particular statute might affect the parties’ positions. Counsel offered to brief that question and did so.

After considering the pleadings, evidence, memoranda of law, and arguments of counsel, I find that the defendants’ requests for venue transfer are procedurally barred or waived. If I were to consider the defendants’ venue challenges on their merits, the result would be the same;…