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Justices cautious about jail authority fee fight
Pullin CHARLESTON – Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals showed no enthusiasm for settling a dispute over fees that Cabell County commissioners pay the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority to keep suspects behind bars.
Judge wasn't impartial, Massey lawyer tells Justices
CHARLESTON - Circuit Judge Jay Hoke helped Hugh Caperton win a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Coal in Boone County, an attorney told the West Virginia Supreme Court.
Justices hear arguments in lengthy divorce case
Maynard CHARLESTON - Justice Spike Maynard of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals wisecracked that courts will dismiss any divorce that lasts longer than the marriage.
Woman wants ex-husband surgeon to pay divorce bill
CHARLESTON – Georganne Landis ran up a $333,442.86 bill divorcing orthopedic surgeon A. E. Landis of Beckley, and she wants him to pay it.
Two years after Jack's order, little has changed
Jack Does anyone remember how a Democratic judge in Texas defied her party's devotion to mass torts, exposed 10,000 phony suits, imposed a whopping sanction, sparked investigations and instigated reforms?
Is jail authority charging counties too much?
CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority charges counties too much for keeping suspects behind bars.
Supreme Court to hear $50 million Massey appeal
CHARLESTON – Five years after Boone County jurors awarded about $50 million on a claim that Massey Coal ruined a man and his business, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will judge the trial.
AT&T Wireless class action remanded back to Kanawha County
CHARLESTON – U. S. District Judge John Copenhaver remanded a proposed class action over AT&T Mobility's roadside assistance fee to Kanawha Circuit Court on Sept. 26.
Hybrid employees complicating legislators' progress on work comp
CHARLESTON – Some West Virginians work for two companies on one job, and these hybrid employees have snagged state leaders in their progress from monopoly to competition in workers compensation insurance.
Insurers showing interest in WV work comp arena
CHARLESTON - Travelers Insurance has stepped forward as the first company to accept West Virginia's invitation to compete for workers compensation insurance premiums.
Double-dipping cop scandal remains open as city keeps pay records sealed
CHARLESTON – Three years after Charleston police prosecuted a Black officer for "double dipping" that he said they allowed for Whites, police claim an investigation of the scandal remains open.
Former VP says Salem retaliated, calls school a diploma mill
CLARKSBURG – Former Salem International University vice president Debra Mertz claims her employers retaliated against her because she refused to help them run the school as a diploma mill.
State Supreme Court to visit Marshall
HUNTINGTON – Executives of regional airline Colgan Air ordered their Huntington crew to stop tormenting prospective pilot Rao Zahid Khan, but a month after the World Trade Center attacks the Huntington crew fired him.
Eastern Panhandle teachers seek more pay
CHARLESTON- Teachers in the Eastern Panhandle region claim in a lawsuit that they deserve better pay than other teachers in West Virginia.
Man to plead his own case before Supreme Court to become lawyer
CHARLESTON - Michael Mounts admits he has a massive ego and a checkered past, but he doesn't see why those should keep him from practicing law in West Virginia.
Genesis Healthcare wants law firm to stop using trademark, logo
CHARLESTON – Owners of Genesis Healthcare nursing homes want to stop seeing their trademark and logo on the Web site of attorneys who sue nursing homes.
Manchin tells potential workers' comp insurers West Virginia is open for business
CHARLESTON - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin might remove his "Open for Business" slogan from highway signs on the state's borders, but he won't stop saying it.
Court to decide if 80-year-old man can sue those who arrested him
CHARLESTON – Chuck Canterbury of Mount Hope, who twice persuaded the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to throw out criminal charges against him, now wants the Court to let him sue those who arrested him.
Petition would force BrickStreet to act as state agency
CHARLESTON – Workers' compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual faces a competitive future but can't shake off the baggage of a state agency.
Colleges amass financial records of athletes in NCAA class action
LOS ANGELES -- California class action attorneys seek hundreds of millions in something like back pay for 48,000 college football and men's basketball players.