Canterbury CHARLESTON – West Virginians can read electronic mail exchanges between judges and private citizens even if the e-mails mix public and private business, The West Virginia Record argues in Kanawha Circuit Court.
CHARLESTON -- Could the recent release of U.S. Census Bureau data be responsible for a new online survey of young professionals between 21 and 45 which it hopes will shed some light on the exodus from West Virginia of that demographic?
Canterbury CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom will read e-mails from offices of Chief Justice Spike Maynard and decide if the rest of the world can read them.
Maynard CHARLESTON - A circuit judge on Monday denied The Associated Press' wish to hammer out issues surrounding a denied request for a log of state Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard's e-mails and phone calls before Tuesday's primary election.
CHARLESTON – A Princeton attorney said he was told in advance that photos showing state Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship together in Monaco would become public as part of a motion in a Supreme Court case involving a $76 million verdict.
CHARLESTON –- State Supreme Court candidate Bob Bastress says phone and e-mail records from his West Virginia University College of Law office "refute any assertion that I have been using my law school office to campaign for a position on the Supreme Court."
Canterbury CHARLESTON - The Associated Press has filed a lawsuit over a Freedom of Information Act request against the administrative director of the West Virginia Supreme Court, seeking the phone records and visitor logs of one of the justices.
CHARLESTON – State Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard is on the offensive, saying he's been on the receiving end of "dirty tricks," "disgusting" antics and "gotcha politics."
McGraw CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Darrell McGraw will not relent in his civil suit against the former director of a federally and state-funded senior center recently acquitted of a federal charge that he illegally cashed in more than $31,000 in sick leave.
Bastress CHARLESTON - Bob Bastress, a professor at West Virginia University's law school, says the current justices at the state's Supreme Court of Appeals need to learn to stay out of the limelight.
Maynard CHARLESTON – Maintaining that he has "no doubt in his own mind" that he could be objective, Chief Justice Spike Maynard recused himself Friday from a headline-grabbing case. Fellow Justice Brent Benjamin, however, refused to do so.
Maynard CHARLESTON – State Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that he let his friendship with Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship influence his opinions.
Rodriguez MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University has sued former head football coach Rich Rodriguez after he left the school before completing his contract.
McGraw CHARLESTON - The federal government is unhappy with another settlement engineered by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw and is planning to make the state pay up.
Shabazz CHARLESTON – A Washington, D.C., attorney spearheading an awareness and fundraising campaign for the victim in a Logan County torture case was disciplined last year by the District's Bar Association for not properly handling the settlement awarded in a civil case involving two minor children.
CLARKSBURG - A Harrison County jury has ordered DuPont to pay $196.2 million in punitive damages after the company was convicted of wanton, willful and reckless conduct.
CLARKSBURG - The closing arguments of a class-action lawsuit against DuPont are set after 10 plaintiffs testified in the fourth and final phase of the trial.