State Supreme Court Category Archives: State Supreme Court

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Justice Joseph Albright

CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court case involving a woman who wrote a bounced check for car insurance simply won’t die. Read More »

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Justice Larry Starcher

CHARLESTON – West Virginians can buy auto insurance with worthless checks, the Supreme Court of Appeals decided Dec. 2.
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Justice Spike Maynard

CHARLESTON – Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Elliott “Spike” Maynard blistered his colleagues for ordering West Virginia National Auto Insurance to cover a customer whose check bounced. Read More »

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CHARLESTON — In a divorce where a woman says she owns half the house and a man says he owns the whole house, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has taken the man’s side. Read More »

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Justice Larry Starcher

CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is weighing its options a week after the state Supreme Court said it must put its user fee up for vote. Meanwhile, one Supreme Court justice said the $1 weekly fee is a burden on low-income workers in the city. While another justice said the city shouldn’t be forced to have an election on the issue. Read More »

CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has upheld the state’s right to tax coal exports after coal companies argued that the severance tax actually is a sales tax and a violation of federal protections for interstate commerce. The state claims … Read More »

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Tommy Toler

CHARLESTON — In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court has suspended a Wayne County magistrate for violating judicial ethics. Tommy Toler was suspended, retroactive to July, for four years. That means he won’t return to serve the rest of his term to which he was re-elected last fall. Read More »

The state Supreme Court of Appeals sided with the City of Charleston as a distributor of alcoholic beverages wanted to recover 20 years of liquor licensing fees. Robert Person is owner of Standard Distributing Inc. and Associated Wine and Spirits … Read More »

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Justice Robin Davis

The West Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed a Fayette County Circuit Court ruling that an insurance company didn’t have a duty to offer a client uninsured and underinsured motor vehicle coverage when he bought or renewed an umbrella insurance policy.
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Justice Spike Maynard

The state Supreme Court has ordered the City of Charleston to have an election to allow residents to decide whether to keep the $1-a-week user fee.
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The West Virginia Supreme Court is requesting public comment on a proposed amendment that would give the circuit court discretion to grant a motion to sever or order other relief in the instance of a joint indictment or consolidated trial. … Read More »