CHARLESTON — The state Supreme Court has ruled a senior status circuit judge was correct in granting summary judgment to the state by rejecting an appeal from five state employees who claimed they were shortchanged by a payroll cycle change.
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is part of a 13-state coalition that has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Treasury regarding states’ ability to cut taxes despite a provision in the most recent COVID-19 release package.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said he is not satisfied with the U.S. Treasury Secretary’s response to his joint effort with other states to seek confirmation that the most recent COVID-19 stimulus bill does not strip states of their well-established authority to tax or not tax their citizens.
CHARLESTON — A former Charleston attorney William M. Lester Jr. was sentenced to home confinement for one to three years after he pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
Each year the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia makes a trip to the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown as part of the Court’s effort to build greater awareness of the judicial system and the work of the Court.
CHARLESTON — Three state Attorneys General, including West Virginia's Patrick Morrisey, are leading a 21-state coalition seeking immediate confirmation that the most recent COVID-19 stimulus bill does not strip states of their well-established authority to tax or not tax their citizens.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court will decide whether to remand a case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay.
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome former United States Attorney Mike Stuart as its newest partner in Charleston, West Virginia. Stuart will practice with the firm’s national corporate department
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has remanded a case back to Kanawha Circuit Court to redo the class certification order consistent with another recent Supreme Court ruling.
CHARLESTON – A case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay will be heard by the state Supreme Court.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Judge has denied the temporary restraining order sought by the state's two largest teacher’s unions that sought to postpone a return to full-time in-person schooling until all school personnel receive a complete vaccination against COVID-19 and to allow county school boards to determine how and when in-person instruction and activity will resume.
CHARLETON – The state's two largest teacher’s unions have filed complaints seeking to have the state Board of Education and others refrain from requiring in-person schooling until all school personnel receive a complete vaccination against COVID-19 and to allow county school boards to determine how and when in-person instruction and activity will resume.
CHARLESTON – A Pleasants County woman says she suffered a stroke and other injuries after she was sprayed with pepper spray during a Division of Corrections training exercise.
U.S. Attorneys Mike Stuart and Bill Powell today announced more than $4.85 million in Department of Justice grants to fight and prevent violent crime in the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia.
Gov. Jim Justice announced that West Virginia’s revenue collections for September 2020 came in at about $10 million above estimates, putting a positive finishing touch on a first quarter that saw multiple all-time state revenue records broken.
WHEELING – A group of businesses and individuals have filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaration that Gov. Jim Justice’s “never-ending executive orders mandating restrictions” through the COVID-19 pandemic are unconstitutional.
WINFIELD – An attorney is calling for the Putnam County Board of Education to ignore the state’s color-coded COVID-19 map and put students back in the classroom.
