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.
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.
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.
Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis listens intently during oral arguments at Marshall University. HUNTINGTON – In observance of Constitution Week, the state Supreme Court made a visit to Marshall University last week to hear oral arguments in four cases. And though they were in Huntington for serious business, the justices, at times, put on a performance apropos for their venue.
Albright CHARLESTON -- Two West Virginia Supreme Court Justices will read to West Virginia elementary school students on Constitution Day on Monday, Sept. 17.
Davis CHARLESTON – State Supreme Court Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis lectured Justice Larry Starcher so firmly over a dissent that he probably can count it as credit for continuing education.
Benjamin CHARLESTON – Four months after the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decided that attorneys in Wheeling could forever collect 30 percent of royalties on a coal lease they negotiated, the argument hasn't ended.
Albright CHARLESTON – Two years after the state Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that Erie Insurance Property and Casualty did not have to disclose its reserves to a woman who accused the insurer of bad faith, the Justices ruled that Erie had to after all.
SUTTON – Criminal charges against Braxton County Magistrate Carolyn Cruickshanks will come before a grand jury in August, according to county prosecutor Daniel Dodson.
Maynard CHARLESTON – Driving someone else's car with two passengers, cold medicine, matches and syringes in it does not add up to conspiracy to make methamphetamine, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
During the 2006 State of the State address, Gov. Joe Manchin unveiled new "Open For Business" highway signs that welcome visitors to West Virginia. CHARLESTON - West Virginia and Virginia share a border, but apparently little else.
Frank CHARLESTON - When a state's legal reputation is so poor that it is widely regarded as the worst in which to do business, it is normally pretty hard to shock the legal community.
Starcher CHARLESTON - Justice Larry Starcher of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals rebuked Justice Brent Benjamin for describing a decision granting a new trial to a criminal defendant as a gift.
McGraw CHARLESTON – Working for West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw depressed Donald Darling and gave him migraine headaches, but the Supreme Court of Appeals says McGraw owes him nothing.
Albright CHARLESTON -- A Braxton County Magistrate should be paid while on suspension for allegedly helping her son set up a jail inmate for retaliation, two state Supreme Court Justices say in a dissenting opinion.
Davis CHARLESTON – Drug companies cannot escape liability for harmful prescriptions in West Virginia by laying all responsibility on doctors, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled June 27.