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Justices put in middle of family feud
CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether Eugenia Moschgat suffered any loss when her mother died.
Kanawha school board goes to Supreme Court for more state aid
CHARLESTON – Kanawha County Board of Education members want the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to award them a bigger share of state school aid.
Nationwide Insurance plaintiffs resist transfer to Roane County
CHARLESTON – Nationwide Mutual Insurance policyholders who sued the insurer in Jefferson and Marshall counties don't want anyone settling their claims in Roane County.
Court to decide if jury cheated dead man's sons
CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether prejudice in an Ohio County jury cheated a dead man's sons out of a fair verdict.
Allstate asks Supreme Court for relief
CHARLESTON - Allstate Insurance wants the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to relieve it of a duty to analyze 10 years of property damage claims.
Dead smokers dismissed from class action suit
Recht WHEELING – Ohio Circuit Judge Arthur Recht has dismissed 162 dead cigarette smokers from a statewide class action suit against tobacco companies.
Firm, car dealer reach settlement in class action
Bell CHARLESTON – Charleston attorney Harry Bell settled an $11 million class action suit against auto dealer Wally Thornhill for coupons worth less than $2 million after discovering that complete success would have pushed Thornhill into bankruptcy.
Judges, journalists swap roles at conference
WHEELING – Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King compared his job to ditch digging as journalists and judges reversed roles at a statewide judicial education conference Oct. 17.
Who's suing who in flood trial?
BECKLEY – Five years after hundreds of residents in the Coal River watershed sued dozens of businesses over damage from a flood, defense attorneys do not know which residents sued which businesses.
Justices restore $1 million trust to UMWA
CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously restored a $1 million trust fund that the United Mine Workers of America lost in the financial collapse of Blue Cross Blue Shield of West Virginia.
Justices fire Huntington fireman
CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals fired a fireman whose urine sample suspiciously resembled tap water.
U.S. Supreme Court denies AGs' petition on tobacco
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a monumental blow to the biggest tobacco deal in the land.
U.S. Supreme Court may hear venue case
WASHINGTON, D. C. – Two corporations have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, allowing a Virginia man to sue them in West Virginia over injuries from an accident in Virginia.
Consumers for Justice case to stay in Virginia
Blankenship ALEXANDRIA, Va. – U. S. District Judge James Cacheris has refused jurisdiction in a defamation suit that Massey Energy Company and company president Don Blankenship filed against West Virginia Consumers for Justice.
Mysterious lawyer joins state Zyprexa case
HUNTINGTON - West Virginia taxpayers have retained a mysterious attorney in their lawsuit over ill effects of Zyprexa, a prescription drug for psychotics.
High Court still pondering tobacco laws
WASHINGTON, D. C. – After wrestling with a monumental decision over tobacco laws for a week, Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court decided to keep wrestling.
Justices seem skeptical in case of firefighter caught with crack
CHARLESTON – Michael Giannini might as well push a rock uphill as try to win back his job as a Huntington firefighter after getting caught with crack cocaine.
Consumers for Justice bankruptcy petition in good standing in Charleston
CHARLESTON – In reporting an attorney's error, The West Virginia Record committed an error.
Court to decide if firefighter should lose his job
CHARLESTON – Folks in Huntington cannot decide if firefighter Michael Giannini should lose his job for getting busted near a crack house, so the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide.
Judge certifies national class action over 'light' cigarettes
NEW YORK CITY – Only in America could an 85 year old judge put himself in charge of a $200 billion lawsuit with 60 million plaintiffs.