Virginia Pleading: Sufficiency of Allegations – a Lawyer’s Retort
Virginia defendants may cite Pulte Home, Inc. v. Parex, 265 Va. 518 (2003) for allegedly impermissible conclusory pleading, in hopes of a quick summary dismissal without addressing the merits of a suit. But Pulte Home usually is readily distinguishable on its extreme facts. In Pulte Home, the plaintiff’s “allegation merely...