John O'Brien News
Class action filed against Home Depot in Jefferson County
CHARLES TOWN – Former employees are alleging in a recently filed class action lawsuit that Home Depot doesn’t pay their final wages quickly enough.
Lawsuit against Range Resources over oil and gas leases wraps up
CLARKSBURG – The remaining plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Range Resources-Appalachia have apparently settled their claims that the company reneged on an offer to secure oil and gas leases on more than 500 plots of land.
Judge slashes Mountain State Justice's fees request
CHARLESTON – Mountain State Justice, the nonprofit law firm that helps low-income individuals, will recover only 69 percent of what it was requesting for helping a Beckley woman sue Wells Fargo.
Woman settles Turnpike crash lawsuit
BLUEFIELD – A Nebraska company has settled a Raleigh County woman’s lawsuit against it over a 2009 car crash on the West Virginia Turnpike.
House votes to make public financing for SC elections permanent
CHARLESTON – The House of Delegates has passed a bill that would make permanent the public financing program used in the 2012 Supreme Court election.
AG's office obtains $126K judgment
Morrisey
Without drug test results, man awarded Workers' Comp
CHARLESTON – If a man’s employer wants to claim he was under the influence of drugs when he was injured on-the-job in a vehicle accident, it needs to include drug test results, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
Sanctions against AEP affirmed in case over fatal accident
CHARLESTON – In a ruling that doesn’t come as a surprise for those who watched oral arguments, the state Supreme Court has affirmed court-imposed sanctions against American Electric Power.
CIVIL FILINGS: Berkeley County
March 12
Coach dismissed, expert arrested in softball sliding lawsuit
One of the four softball fields at Charlotte Prather Park
Sheetz settles trip-and-fall lawsuit
MARTINSBURG – Twelve days before a trial was scheduled to begin, a personal injury lawsuit against Sheetz was settled.
