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CSX attorneys on defendant's witness list
Williams WHEELING – Pittsburgh asbestos lawyer Robert Peirce, defending his firm against CSX Transportation in a fraud trial, plans to call the railroad's lawyers as witnesses.
Developer seeks federal order to overturn state Justices
Bastress MARTINSBURG – Jefferson County planners who issued a permit to develop 123 acres after the state Supreme Court of Appeals ordered them to issue it now seek a federal court order that would overturn the Justices and block construction.
Jackson Kelly lawyers frauded miners, suit claims
BECKLEY – Black lung lawyers of the Jackson Kelly firm fraudulently deprive coal miners of rightful benefits, a retired miner claims in a civil suit.
Gates learned to talk back in W.Va.
CHARLESTON -– "Boy, you crazy sometimes," Henry Louis Gates Sr. told his namesake son in Piedmont about 50 years ago.
Defense gets OK to look at Digitek batch records
CHARLESTON -– Lawyers alleging that sloppy practices at an Actavis Totowa drug factory led to adulteration of heart medicine Digitek have gained permission to find out if sloppy practices spoiled other pills at the factory.
Man in asbestos case to testify against lawyers
Peirce WHEELING – CSX Transportation worker Ricky May, who received $8,000 from CSX to settle an asbestos exposure suit that he filed with an X-ray of another man's chest, has agreed to pay the railroad back and testify against his former lawyers.
Coal company sues UMW over cocaine-related firing
CLARKSBURG – Consolidation Coal has sued the United Mine Workers of America in federal court for the right to fire a miner who tested positive for cocaine.
Judge wants DNR chief to respond about attorney fees
Jezioro ELKINS – While West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro appeals a court order striking down a ban on soliciting in state parks, the judge who signed the order prepares to assess attorney's fees against Jezioro.
Lawyers in asbestos MDL settle dispute over 'dysfunctional database'
Robreno PHILADELPHIA – Lawyer Jeffrey Varas of Hazelhurst, Miss., who charged that defendants in national asbestos litigation generated false allegations against his clients from a dysfunctional database, withdrew the charge a week later.
Asbestos lawyers say defense using 'dysfunctional' database to dismiss claims in MDL
Robreno PHILADELPHIA –- Asbestos lawyers who for decades piled claims by the millions on businesses are howling in protest now that the tables have turned.
DNR chief appeals state park solicitation ruling
Jezioro RICHMOND, Va. -– West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro wants the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a district court order finding a ban on solicitation in state parks unconstitutional.
CSX wants judge to strike doctors' testimony
Harron WHEELING – CSX Transportation has asked U.S. District Judge Frederick Stamp to strike testimony of three doctors in the railroad's fraud trial against Pittsburgh asbestos lawyers Robert Peirce and Charles Raimond.
Survey shows issues with race, juvenile justice
CHARLESTON – Workers in West Virginia courts and sheriff's offices might need to reform their attitudes about blacks to preserve full federal funding for juvenile justice, according to a survey.
WVU researchers hid legal conflict, records show
Haut WHEELING - West Virginia University researchers took money from U.S. taxpayers and plaintiff lawyers, hid the conflict of interest, and produced questionable research for the benefit of the lawyers, according to court documents obtained by The West Virginia Record.
Workman writes opinion overturning a three-year-old loss
Workman CHARLESTON – As an attorney, Margaret Workman failed to persuade the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to lengthen the list of beneficiaries in wrongful death suits against employers. But as a Justice, she succeeded.
Man knows little about his case against CSX
Williams WHEELING – Earl Baylor's asbestos exposure suit against his former employers at CSX Transportation has brought him fame, but lawyers who deposed him last month discovered that he knew next to nothing about his case.
Judge says firm must produce Harron documents
Peirce WHEELING -– A federal judge has ruled that a prominent Pittsburgh-based asbestos lawyer must produce his firm's correspondence with a controversial Bridgeport radiologist.
Columbia settles pipeline case for $6 per yard
CHARLESTON – Emogene Helmick received $50,000, not by playing the lottery but by forcing Columbia Gas Transmission to fix a mess its pipeline caused.
Peirce can't hide behind privilege, judge rules
Peirce WHEELING – U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert won't let Pittsburgh attorney Robert Peirce hide from CSX Transportation behind attorney client privilege.
Constitution Party wins constitutional fight
Jezioro ELKINS – In a constitutional triumph for the Constitution Party, U.S. District Judge John Bailey ruled that citizens can circulate petitions on West Virginia public lands.