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State unsure of legal steps against national dental chain
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia officials say they haven't decided what legal steps they'll take against a national dental chain that closed its offices last week. -
Goodwin ruling on vaccinations wrong, lawyer argues
Goodwin RICHMOND, Va. –- U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin committed an error when he denied a mother's right to send a child to school without vaccinations, a lawyer has told the Fourth Circuit appeals judges. -
DuPont case remanded to state court
MORGANTOWN -- A federal judge has remanded the lawsuit of 15 West Virginia families who say their illnesses are the result of a former DuPont plant to Harrison County Circuit Court. -
W.Va. Law Review addresses Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
MORGANTOWN -- The latest issue of the West Virginia Law Review, designated "Health Care in America," is one of the first law reviews in the country to substantively address the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed earlier this year. -
Federal judge Maxwell dies
Maxwell WHEELING -- Federal Judge Robert E. Maxwell has died. -
DuPont wants handwritten documents from 8,500 smelter plaintiffs
CHARLESTON -- The chemical giant DuPont now wants the 8,500 people who brought a pollution case against the company to provide it with handwritten documents. -
Kanawha judge rejects GOP ballot challenge
CHARLESTON -- A lawsuit filed by West Virginia's Republican Party in to have voters provided with separate ballots Nov. 2 was shot down, with a judge saying the party's "allegations of harm" were too speculative. -
State GOP has questions about federal subpoenas
Stuart CHARLESTON -- West Virginia's Republican Party -- with just weeks left before the Nov. 2 election -- is reminding voters about federal subpoenas received by Gov. Joe Manchin's administration. -
THEIR VIEW: About that Nike ad ... get a life!
MORGANTOWN -- You've heard by now that Nike changed the background of its promotional ad for the new WVU football "Battle Gear" uniform because of objections by mountaintop removal opponents. -
Manchin Senate campaign raking in donations
Manchin CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has raised more than a half-million dollars in the race for the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat, according to Federal Election Commission filings. -
Feds subpoena two state agencies
Manchin CHARLESTON - West Virginia was served last week with two federal subpoenas, Gov. Joe Manchin's office has confirmed. -
Hearing set in Massey coal dust suit
CHARLESTON - A Raleigh County judge will hold a hearing later this month on a lawsuit that alleges hundreds of children were exposed to toxic coal dust from a Massey Energy processing plant and silo next to Marsh Fork Elementary School. -
Manchin running for U.S. Senate
Manchin CHARLESTON -- Gov. Joe Manchin announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd's unexpired term. -
Marion Co. attorney disbarred for sexual encounter with inmate
CHARLESTON -- The state Supreme Court has stripped a Marion County attorney of his law license for his sexual encounter with an inmate. -
Massey faces water suit
Massey CEO Don Blankenship CHARLESTON - Four environmental groups are suing five subsidiaries of Massey Energy, the company that owns the Raleigh County mine where 29 miners recently lost their lives, over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. -
Massey and regulators at odds over ventilation flaws
Blankenship JULIAN – Mining regulators and Massey Energy owners blame each other for any ventilation flaws that contributed to 29 deaths at Upper Big Branch mine. -
Shareholder says Massey violated court order
CHARLESTON – Manville Personal Injury Trust, a shareholder of Massey Energy, claims Massey violated a court order that would have made its coal mines safer. -
THEIR VIEW: Manchin reflects on mine tragedy
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Group may challenge publicly financed election
Manchin CHARLESTON (Legal Newsline) - Before West Virginia ever holds a publicly financed election for two Supreme Court seats in 2012, the law allowing it might have to survive a challenge in court. -
Former SC Justice Maynard running for Congress
Maynard CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard announced Monday that he is running for Congress.