State Supreme Court Category Archives: State Supreme Court

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Albright

CHARLESTON – West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company lost some freedom and gained some at the Supreme Court of Appeals.
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Davis

CHARLESTON – Drug companies cannot escape liability for harmful prescriptions in West Virginia by laying all responsibility on doctors, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled June 27.
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Canterbury

CHARLESTON — The Administrative Director of the state’s court system has been appointed to serve on the Council of State Government’s Justice Center Board of Directors.
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Allen

CHARLESTON – A Charleston attorney wants to prove that being on the state Supreme Court isn’t a daunting and overwhelming task.
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Benjamin

CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals who awarded a new trial to sexual assault suspect Denver Youngblood tried to sanitize him, Justice Brent Benjamin wrote in dissent.
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Albright

CHARLESTON- Drivers of all terrain vehicles don’t need driver’s licenses to run on road shoulders, but according to the Supreme Court of Appeals those who lose driver’s licenses lose the right to run ATVs on shoulders.
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Starcher

CHARLESTON – Justice Larry Starcher of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals pleaded passionately for Valerie Whittaker, vouching not only for her innocence but also for her courage.
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Jones

CHARLESTON – As the state Supreme Court agrees to hear a possible challenge to a medical malpractice reform law, those who supported and opposed it say they plan to watch the case closely.
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Westmoreland

CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Mason County case that could challenge the constitutionality of a medical malpractice reform law.
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CHARLESTON – Terry Mace and Donald Mace sold a wreck to Liberty Mutual Insurance for scrap and then sued the insurer for scrapping it. The Maces claimed Liberty Mutual sold parts off a 1994 Ford Explorer to get rid of … Read More »

CHARLESTON — To extend the statute of limitations for a man who suffered temporary mental illness, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals stretched the words “at the same time” to mean a few days. Four of five Justices reversed … Read More »

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Maynard

CHARLESTON – State Supreme Court Justice Elliott “Spike” Maynard says he isn’t ready to give up his seat on the bench just yet.
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Benjamin

CHARLESTON- Braxton County Magistrate Carolyn Cruickshanks cannot draw her pay while on suspension for allegedly helping her son set up a jail inmate for retaliation, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled.
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Starcher

CHARLESTON – Mingo Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury rewarded wrecker Kenneth Cox for deceitfully holding a vehicle, according to a May 25 opinion of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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CHARLESTON – Adonis Thompson, who slept while his two-year-old son died in a hot car, failed to convince the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals that he did not commit a crime. The Justices on May 11 unanimously affirmed his … Read More »