Daily Archives: October 28, 2010

PVH named in wrongful death of Jackson woman’s baby

POINT PLEASANT -– A Jackson County woman is accusing the staff at a Mason County hospital in the negligent delivery of her baby. Katie Casto filed suit against Pleasant Valley Hospital in Mason Circuit Court on Sept. 24. In her … Read More »

Mason County, News

Police officer sues McDonald’s franchisee over blood-laced order

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This McDonald’s restaurant on Ohio Avenue in Parkersburg is where Matthew Board alleges he found droplets of blood in his drive-thru order in 2008. (Photo by Lawrence Smith)

PARKERSBURG -– A Parkersburg police officer is suing a McDonald’s restaurant for effectively turning his drive-thru order into a crime scene.
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News, Wood County

Doctor, government agencies sued over clogged storm drain

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Water that accumulated at this building on Camden Avenue in Parkersburg is what Steven and Debra Momish say later flooded into their apartment across the street. (Photo by Lawrence Smith)

PARKERSBURG – A Wood county couple allege a physician, the city of Parkersburg, the Wood County Commission and the state of West Virginia share responsibility for water damage their apartment sustained earlier this year.
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News, Wood County

Business Court Committee agrees on mission, schedules public forum

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Pratt

CHARLESTON — The Business Court Committee established by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals met by conference call Oct. 28 and passed a resolution setting its mission, comprehensive plan and vision.
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News, State Supreme Court

Goodwin won’t budge on Digitek decision

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Goodwin

CHARLESTON – Plaintiff lawyers who couldn’t keep up with U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek couldn’t convince him he made a mistake when he rejected a class action for economic losses.
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Federal Court, News

Webster refuses to let man being arraigned go vote

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Webster

CHARLESTON — A Kanawha Circuit judge refused to allow a man being arraigned on a murder charge go vote.
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Kanawha County, News

Kanawha candidates bicker to the wire

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Greear

CHARLESTON -– With less than a week before Election Day, the campaigns for the two candidates for Kanawha Circuit Judge still were bickering.
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Kanawha County, News

Federal judge freezes Massey suit against regulators

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has frozen all action in Massey Energy’s suit seeking relief from federal mine regulators. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon stayed proceedings on Oct. 27, though neither Massey subsidiary Elk Run Coal nor the Mine Safety … Read More »

Federal Court, News

Judge wrong about pardon letter, Justices rule

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Ketchum

CHARLESTON – Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges exceeded his authority when he ordered clerks of the Legislature to delete a letter about a pardon from their journals, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
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News, State Supreme Court

PERSONNEL FILE: Cox named ‘Lawyer of the Year’

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Cox

CHARLESTON — The management team of the law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that T. Randolph Cox has been named the “Charleston, WV Best Lawyers Government Relations Lawyer of the Year” for 2011.
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News, Personnel File

PERSONNEL FILE: Tiffany Davis joins Jackson Kelly

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Davis

MORGANTOWN – Tiffany B. Davis recently joined Jackson Kelly as an associate in the Morgantown office.
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News, Personnel File