Multiple parties
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Taylor v. Commonwealth (1994)
Most recently applied in 83 Va. Cir. 344 - Argos Utilities Corp. v. Perrin (September 2011)
1977, c. 617.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In actions involving multiple parties, venue shall not be subject to objection:
1. If one or more of the parties is entitled to preferred venue, and such action is commenced in any such forum; provided that in any action where there are one or more residents and one or more nonresidents or parties unknown, venue shall be proper (preferred or permissible, as the case may be) as to at least one resident defendant;
2. In all other cases, if the venue is proper as to any party.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.