Maynard CHARLESTON -- Spike Maynard will be Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 2008, and Brent Benjamin will hold the position in 2009.
CHARLESTON – Bernard Folio of Clarksburg and his real estate business can pursue a suit to make city taxpayers demolish a building they bought from him and a suit seeking damages from the city for fraud and misrepresentation.
Davis CHARLESTON - More than half of the state Supreme Court justices said Wednesday it agreed with a Boone County jury award of more than $50 million against Massey Energy, but had no choice but to drop it.
Albright CHARLESTON – Mark Roberts waited too long to sue West Virginia American Water Company for causing the toe of his hill to slide down on his road, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
CHARLESTON – Attorneys Wesley Metheney and Paul Farrell Jr. of Huntington coaxed a $10 million verdict out of a Monongalia County jury when state law allowed no more than $1 million, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
Albright CHARLESTON - Just because an expert medical witness does not use the medical tools alleged to have caused harm does not mean he or she may not testify to the standard of care needed while using them, the state's Supreme Court of Appeals recently held.
Benjamin CHARLESTON – West Virginians can't preserve their driving privileges by pleading no contest to drunken driving instead of pleading guilty, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
Benjamin CHARLESTON - By a 4-1 vote, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday not to hear the appeal of four major tobacco companies who claim a mass litigation proceeding against them needs to be updated.
Albright CHARLESTON – Justices of the state Supreme Court of Appeals rejected a woman's claim under her auto insurance policy for emotional distress from her mother's death in a crash that happened under someone else's policy.
CHARLESTON – Fifteen years after Debbie Plumley finished serving time for felony incest, she must close an informal nursing home in Milton because of her crime.
SUTTON – Braxton County Magistrate Carolyn Cruickshanks pleaded not guilty Oct. 23 to a charge that she conspired with her son to retaliate against a witness who helped send her son to jail.
Calwell CHARLESTON – Charleston attorney Stuart Calwell approached the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Oct. 10 hoping to revive hundreds of six-year-old suits over flooding around Beckley, but the Court vanished before his eyes.
Albright CHARLESTON – Becoming defenders of motherhood, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals protested a Cabell County court order forcing a mother to share custody of her three-year-old daughter with babysitters.
CHARLESTON – Julian Smith, who after 15 years behind bars overturned a jury that convicted him of aggravated armed robbery, has pleaded guilty to a lesser crime.
CHARLESTON – Normally attorneys do all the arguing at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, but a drunken driving case provoked an argument on the bench.