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Seven Digitek plaintiffs want cases kept alive
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Seven plaintiffs whose lawyers missed a mandatory hearing in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek plead to keep their cases alive.
Federal judge denies physical exams for law firm's former clients
WHEELING -– The Provost Umphrey law firm can't examine former clients to check their fitness for travel, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert decided.
Jackson Hewitt wants state Supreme Court rehearing
Woody CHARLESTON -– Tax preparer Jackson Hewitt plans to ask the state Supreme Court of Appeals to review a decision defining it as a credit broker for purposes of a class action.
Justices suggest lawmakers rewrite baffling credit law
Benjamin CHARLESTON – Tax preparer Jackson Hewitt turned itself into a credit broker when it arranged refund anticipation loans, the Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
Building owners deserve trial, Court rules
CHARLESTON – Owners of the St. James Building in Huntington deserve a jury trial over possession of their mezzanine, the Supreme Court of Appeals have ruled.
Patriot Coal has its appeal dismissed
Chambers RICHMOND, Va. -– Patriot Coal owners decided not to resist U.S. District Judge Robert Chambers as he carries out a $45 million plan to clean water from their mines.
Secrecy enters legal malpractice case
WHEELING -– U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert dropped a curtain of secrecy on a dispute over where to depose former CSX railroad workers alleging malpractice against a Texas law firm.
Justices reverse ruling in father's 1981 murder case
Workman CHARLESTON – Richard Poore, who faced life in prison without mercy on a charge of murdering his three-month-old son, has won a new trial or full freedom.
Justices send AT&T case back to Brooke County
CHARLESTON –- West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals interrupted a class action against AT&T Mobility so Brooke Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson can think twice about his jurisdiction.
Justices reverse ruling on Marshall Co. mine fatality
Workman CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman ignored evidence that miner William Coulson of Moundsville caused a fatal accident under the influence of an intoxicant, the Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
Goodwin slices lawyer fees to $6.8M
CHARLESTON – One among 9,000 plaintiffs in a class action objected to a 25 percent fee for lawyers, and U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin agreed with that lone voice.
Miner can't be fired for positive cocaine test, judge rules
CLARKSBURG –- Consolidation Coal can't fire a miner who tested positive for cocaine in the mine, a federal judge has ruled.
Plaintiffs suing Texas firm want depositions in N.C., not W.Va.
WHEELING - Thirteen North Carolina men alleging legal malpractice against Provost Umphrey of Beaumont, Texas, want U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert to move their depositions from Wheeling to locations near their homes.
Judge not sealing document in oil, gas royalties case
Goodwin CHARLESTON - Lawyers wrapping up a $50 million settlement of litigation against Dominion Resources over oil and gas royalties decided too late that they needed to hide the reasons why some lease holders didn't participate.
Goodwin won't budge on Digitek decision
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Plaintiff lawyers who couldn't keep up with U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek couldn't convince him he made a mistake when he rejected a class action for economic losses.
Federal judge freezes Massey suit against regulators
WASHINGTON – A federal judge has frozen all action in Massey Energy's suit seeking relief from federal mine regulators.
Judge wrong about pardon letter, Justices rule
Ketchum CHARLESTON – Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges exceeded his authority when he ordered clerks of the Legislature to delete a letter about a pardon from their journals, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
Charges dropped in poll worker photo case
CHARLES TOWN – Special prosecutor Daniel James dropped a charge that publisher Thomas Harding of the Observer in Shepherdstown broke election law by photographing a poll worker at a polling place.
Workman files dissent in wrongful death statute case
Workman CHARLESTON – Justice Margaret Workman believes her colleagues should have let Fayette County jurors determine the statute of limitations in a wrongful death suit.
Goodwin handed vaginal implant MDL
Goodwin WASHINGTON –- Judges in Washington picked U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin of Charleston to preside over 36 federal lawsuits about Avaulta vaginal implants.