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Supreme Court refuses to hear DaimlerChrysler fee appeal

CHARLESTON – Grubb Law Group will collect $143,026.66 for representing clients who won less than a twentieth of that amount at trial. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals declined March 28 to hear an appeal from automaker DaimlerChrysler seeking … Read More »

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Starcher blames daughter for hostility in Haines’ estate dissent

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Justice Larry Starcher

CHARLESTON – West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals should not have taken the side of the daughter of wealthy lawyer Ralph Haines in a struggle over his will, according to Justice Larry Starcher. Read More »

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State Supreme Court backs Stucky’s approach

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Justice Joseph Albright

CHARLESTON – Judges should not push parties at trial to settle disputes, but when Christine McConaha hauled her brothers and sisters before Kanawha County Circuit Judge James Stucky, the judge chose to take charge and make peace.
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