Buonocore v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

In this appeal, we consider whether Code § 19.2-59 provides an employee a cause of action against his corporate employer and its agent who conducted a warrantless search of the employee’s home.

In November 1992, Linda Sue Taylor informed David R. Cundiff, Deputy Sheriff of Franklin County, that her former boyfriend, Daniel G. Buonocore, possessed illegal firearms in his home. Taylor also informed Cundiff that Buonocore had taken without authorization certain items of personal property belonging to his employer, The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia (C&P). Cundiff related…