VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Attorney Tim Anderson said he has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city of Virginia Beach seeking to hold it accountable for enforcing an unlawful all-ages curfew that led to the arrests of three city residents.
Two of the three people who had been arrested, Stephanie Vann and Michael Barker, are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Their charges were dropped after a judge granted a temporary injunction that put a halt to the curfew after it had been in effect for its first weekend.
Virginia Beach City Council had passed an emergency all-ages curfew that was slated for the last two weekends in April, exclusing the last Saturday of the month. However, a judge sided with Oceanfront businesses and issued a temporary injunction ahead of what would have been the final night of the all-ages curfew, as businesses said the curfew was costing them millions of dollars in lost revenue…