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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The county suffered a mild setback in a preliminary round in the sludge suit before retired judge Jushua Robinson in the courthouse earlier this month, but that result was expected.
George Gilliam, representing the county had filed demurrers, seeking to have the remaining counts against the county dismissed.
John Foote, representing the four landowners that filed as plaintiffs, successfully argued that the demurrers weren’t sufficient to have the counts thrown out.
“We would have preferred it if the court had thrown it all out,” County Administrator John McCarthy said earlier this week. “But nine times out of ten the judge says go ahead with the trial.”
Judge Robinson, from Luray, is hearing the case because all the judges in the 20th Judicial Circuit, who normally hears cases in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun counties, withdrew from hearing the case because a woman who works for the court in Warrenton is related to one of the plaintiffs.
Following his denial of the demurrers, Judge Robinson set September 20 as the date to complete discovery in the case and October 28
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