State Supreme Court Category Archives: State Supreme Court

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Starcher

CHARLESTON – Colgan Air’s tumultuous time before the state’s Supreme Court concluded Oct. 25 with an ideal outcome for the company.
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Masters

CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King will preside over West Virginia’s first medical malpractice class-action lawsuit.
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Poling

CHARLESTON – Attorney Richard Poling, a bright young star in West Virginia 25 years ago, flamed out in Charlotte and lost his law licenses there and back home.
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CHARLESTON – Fifteen years after Debbie Plumley finished serving time for felony incest, she must close an informal nursing home in Milton because of her crime. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decided Oct. 12 that her conviction disqualified … Read More »

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Calwell

CHARLESTON – Charleston attorney Stuart Calwell approached the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Oct. 10 hoping to revive hundreds of six-year-old suits over flooding around Beckley, but the Court vanished before his eyes.
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Albright

CHARLESTON – Becoming defenders of motherhood, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals protested a Cabell County court order forcing a mother to share custody of her three-year-old daughter with babysitters. Read More »

CHARLESTON – Despite losing it in two other states, a Maryland attorney is fighting to keep her license to practice law in West Virginia. Candace K. Calhoun, an attorney in Frostburg, Md., is alleging the Maryland courts did not properly … Read More »

CHARLESTON – City leaders, facing a lawsuit either from their police union or the Charleston Gazette in a struggle for evidence that officers “doubled dipped” as private guards, would rather let someone else decide which powerful force to offend. The … Read More »

CHARLESTON – Julian Smith, who after 15 years behind bars overturned a jury that convicted him of aggravated armed robbery, has pleaded guilty to a lesser crime. His plea may spell freedom. The crime carries a sentence from five to … Read More »

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Walker

CHARLESTON – Saying the people of West Virginia deserve a fair and impartial court, Beth Walker formally announced her candidacy for the state Supreme Court of Appeals on Oct. 16.
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CHARLESTON – Normally attorneys do all the arguing at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, but a drunken driving case provoked an argument on the bench. At one point in the Court’s Oct. 9 session, Justices Larry Starcher and … Read More »

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Pullin

CHARLESTON – Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals showed no enthusiasm for settling a dispute over fees that Cabell County commissioners pay the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority to keep suspects behind bars.
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Walker

CHARLESTON — A Charleston attorney has become the first Republican to file papers to run for the state Supreme Court in 2008, while a Huntington attorney says he likely will become the fifth Democrat to do so.
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CHARLESTON – Circuit Judge Jay Hoke helped Hugh Caperton win a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Coal in Boone County, an attorney told the West Virginia Supreme Court. “He interjected himself into this case and became an advocate,” Huntington … Read More »

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Maynard

CHARLESTON – Justice Spike Maynard of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals wisecracked that courts will dismiss any divorce that lasts longer than the marriage.
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