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Mingo deputy firing trial starts Oct. 20
CHARLESTON – Folks in Mingo County should charter buses to catch a red hot trial between Sheriff Lonnie Hannah and former deputy Roy Glenn Messer starting on Oct. 20.
Lawyers in lawn mower MDL try to head off Ill. reverse auction
MILWAUKEE – U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman has halted national class action litigation over lawn mower engines while lawyers in his court try to head off a copycat class action in Illinois.
McGraw drops his fight to keep Comcast suit out of federal court
McGraw PHILADELPHIA – West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has dropped resistance to federal jurisdiction over his antitrust suit against Comcast.
13 CSX workers say Texas firm screwed up their W.Va. cases
WHEELING -– Thirteen CSX Transportation workers from North Carolina claim a Texas firm bungled their injury suits in West Virginia.
Texas firm asserts privilege in 7,000 asbestos cases
Robreno PHILADELPHIA – Baron and Budd of Houston, a leader in asbestos litigation, has asserted attorney client privilege in more than 7,000 suits that depend on reports from radiologist Jay Segarra.
CSX wants federal appeals court to reinstate Harron trial
Harron RICHMOND, Va. -– Owners of CSX Transportation will ask federal appeals judges to reverse District Judge Frederick Stamp's cancellation of their fraud conspiracy trial against radiologist Ray Harron of Bridgeport and Robert Peirce's law firm.
Former spouses argue over child support at Supreme Court
Workman CHARLESTON – Former spouses often squabble over child support, but only once have they squabbled at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Mom seeks support from former husband for another's child
CHARLESTON – Ninety dollars a month in child support doesn't sound like much. Unless, perhaps, another man fathered the child.
Prosecutor feels like bull in bullfight before Justices
HUNTINGTON – Supreme scorn fell on Fayette County assistant prosecutor Brian Parsons when he argued that police can stop drivers at random for safety checks.
Recht wants Peirce clients to see pulmonologists, calls out Harron
Peirce WHEELING – Every client of Pittsburgh attorney Robert Peirce who intends to pursue an asbestos exposure suit against CSX Transportation in West Virginia must see a pulmonologist, Circuit Judge Arthur Recht of Wheeling has ruled.
Shepherdstown paper wants Justices to hear FOIA case
CHARLES TOWN – Citizens have no right to know who signed petitions that a private group circulated to force a public referendum, Jefferson Circuit Judge David Sanders ruled.
DNR chief drops Constitution Party appeal
Jezioro RICHMOND, Va. -– West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro dropped his appeal of a court order allowing Constitution Party members to solicit signatures on petitions in state parks.
Making money on Internet news still out there
Dalglish HUNTINGTON – Fame and fortune await the person who finds a way to make money with news on the Internet, First Amendment guardian Lucy Dalglish predicts.
Albright Jr. makes late effort to save license
CHARLESTON – In a last-minute bid to save his law license, Joseph Albright Jr. distributed an estate he should have distributed years ago.
Justices to decide whether mall discriminated against black teens
HUNTINGTON –- Charleston Town Center owners claim the eviction of black teens for exceeding a limit of four juveniles in a group didn't constitute discrimination, but they haven't enforced the rule against the white children of Chief Justice Brent Benjamin.
Justices to decide if insurer violated antitrust law with firing
CHARLESTON – Mercer County jurors who found that Erie Insurance violated state antitrust law by terminating a Princeton agent must wait to see if the Supreme Court of Appeals will let their verdict stand.
Harron attorney owes CSX regarding deposition dispute
Harron WHEELING – Bridgeport radiologist Ray Harron defeated CSX Transportation in a civil suit, but one of his lawyers owes the railroad $3,892.50.
Justices must resolve doctor hearing case
CHARLESTON – Five years after directors of West Virginia Mutual Insurance decided not to renew coverage for an orthopedic surgeon with 19 malpractice claims on his record, the insurer still covers the doctor under a court order.
Justices to decide if insurer must pay for man's injuries in rental car
Benjamin CHARLESTON – Enterprise Rent A Car sold Empire Fire and Marine liability insurance to a customer who elected not to cover any other driver, but Enterprise and Empire wound up on the hook for injuries he suffered while someone else drove. Now, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether to take Enterprise and Empire off the hook.
Monroe landowners plead property tax case to Justices
Monroe CHARLESTON -- Monroe County commissioners imposed unconstitutional property taxes on 113 owners of valuable land near Union, the owners pleaded to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Sept. 8.