Ironies, karma abound in the latest ruling concerning that $43 million lawsuit against John Dewberry

On Wednesday a three-judge panel on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment.

An attempt was made to have us refer to the abandoned hotel project on the Downtown Mall as the “Music Box on Main” by wrapping some vinyl artwork around it.

In 2006, John Dewberry, who bought the husk of the "Landmark Hotel" at auction in 2012 for $6.25 million, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a northern-Virginia-based construction and engineering named Dewberry Engineers claiming he had the rights to the "Dewberry" name and that people were confusing the two companies in Virginia. They reached some kind of agreement the following year but continued to battle over the use of the name for years. As negative publicity mounted concerning Dewberry's long-delayed Charlottesville project (a nifty visual timeline from the DP takes us up to 2020), and as Dewberry sought ways to rebrand his company using the Dewberry name, Dewberry Engineers eventually chose to file a lawsuit.

Last year, it was John Dewberry who was ordered to cease and desists as a federal judge approved a $43 million judgm…