PARKERSBURG - A 2005 legal malpractice case against a Ritchie County attorney has a new twist, as the attorney hired to help with the suit has himself been sued for legal malpractice.
Benjamin CHARLESTON - State Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin recently said the reputations of public officials can be unfairly linked to independent groups that support them.
Chief Justice Brent Benjamin CHARLESTON – Brent Benjamin, on his first day as Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, presided over a new kind of ceremony that promised a new kind of Court.
Justice Thomas McHugh examines a file recently in the state Supreme Court offices. McHugh has filled in for ailing Justice Joseph Albright this fall. (Photo by Chris Dickerson) CHARLESTON –- Thomas McHugh found the chairs for justices on the state Supreme Court just as comfortable as they were more than 10 years ago.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has annulled the law license of William H. Duty of Williamson, finding he broke the rules of professional conduct 20 times.
Mayo CHARLESTON – "Airball" sang out the state Supreme Court as the Justices reversed a Cabell Circuit Judge for attaching constitutional significance to O. J. Mayo's participation in Huntington High School basketball games.
CHARLESTON - The state Supreme Court has overturned a decision that held three companies not liable for the injuries of a 13-year-old who was temporarily blinded by mud and rode into three of their wires.
Davis CHARLESTON – Cabell County commissioners correctly valued the Woodlands Retirement Community at $29,759,000, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decided Nov. 5.
Smallridge CHARLESTON – Similar to a Parkersburg dentist, two people in Kanawha County stood accused of making threats on a family law judge only to have their cases result in different outcomes.
CHARLESTON – Citing the "profoundly disturbing" nature of a Wheeling attorney caught on tape conversing with a convicted felon about acquiring a handgun, and collecting debts, the state Supreme Court has opted to annul, rather than suspend, his law license.
Davis CHARLESTON – Davis Memorial Hospital of Elkins tried to dodge an $800,000 tax through a word trick that would have turned it from a big non-profit into a little charity, but the state Supreme Court rejected the trick and enforced the tax.
PARKERSBURG – Should a Randolph County couple be successful in their small claim suit against Joseph P. Albright Jr., they will have to wait in line with others to collect their judgment.
PARKERSBURG – A Wood County attorney is named a small claim suit by two former clients who allege he failed to render legal services for which he was paid.