State Supreme Court Category Archives: State Supreme Court

CHARLESTON – Kanawha County Board of Education members want the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to award them a bigger share of state school aid. They complain that their entire tax levy counts against them in the state aid … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Nationwide Mutual Insurance policyholders who sued the insurer in Jefferson and Marshall counties don’t want anyone settling their claims in Roane County. Five plaintiffs have asked the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to vacate an order of … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether prejudice in an Ohio County jury cheated a dead man’s sons out of a fair verdict. In February, jurors found Valley Radiology physician Mark Kenamond liable … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Allstate Insurance wants the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to relieve it of a duty to analyze 10 years of property damage claims. According to Allstate, a survey that Ohio Circuit Judge Martin Gaughan ordered would cost … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously restored a $1 million trust fund that the United Mine Workers of America lost in the financial collapse of Blue Cross Blue Shield of West Virginia. In an … Read More »

CHARLESTON – The state’s Supreme Court has decided not to deal with the state Board of Education’s disputed takeover of the Mingo County school system, which was initiated by complaints from Mingo residents. On Oct. 3, the High Court voted … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals fired a fireman whose urine sample suspiciously resembled tap water. In the unanimous decision Oct. 5, the Justices ruled that the Huntington Firemen’s Civil Service Commission properly terminated Capt. … Read More »

WHEELING -– The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will hear arguments in three cases Oct. 19 on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University. Students and members of the public are invited to attend, but due to limited seating, tickets … Read More »

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Two corporations have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, allowing a Virginia man to sue them in West Virginia over injuries from an accident … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Michael Giannini might as well push a rock uphill as try to win back his job as a Huntington firefighter after getting caught with crack cocaine. Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in oral arguments … Read More »