CHARLESTON – U.S. Senate candidate Don Blankenship says the Department of Justice is investigating his prosecution related to the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.
KINGWOOD — A Pittsburgh security company is suing Kingwood health care facility operators, alleging they owe more than $30,000 for breach of lease and a guaranty agreement.
CHARLESTON – Oral arguments were to be heard today at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in two cases involving the merger between Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center. In the hours before court began, the parties in the cases asked for dismissal of the cases.
WASHINGTON – Judges on a national panel must decide whether to consolidate opioid suits of local governments and, if so, whether to send them to West Virginia, Illinois or Ohio.
CHARLESTON – A federal judge denied in part and granted in part a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by Air Evac EMS Inc. alleging reimbursement problems with an insurance company.
WASHINGTON – Don Blankenship’s legal team says the U.S. Supreme Court should hear his criminal appeal to ensure other corporate leaders don’t face similar prosecution for workplace safety violations in the future.
CHARLESTON – A judge has granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by a physician claiming the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is attempting to revoke Medicare billing privileges.
CHARLESTON – A judge has granted a motion to set aside entry of default judgment in a lawsuit against PD Enterprises after a clerical error caused the court summons to be served to a defunct business.
CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin shocked all involved in a criminal proceeding by rejecting an alleged drug dealer’s single count of distribution in favor of having him face a jury trial.
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has been given an extra month to respond to former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s request to have the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal of his conviction.
WILLIAMSON — A Mingo County man is suing a tree cutting business, alleging negligence, civil conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and premises liability.
WASHINGTON – Don Blankenship’s legal team formally has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal. Attorneys for the former Massey Energy CEO filed the petition May 25 asking the Justices to take up an appeal of his criminal mine safety conviction. They say the U.S. District Court in Charleston and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., both erred in rulings, and they claim Blankenship was a victim of politics.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has affirmed a Mingo Circuit Court’s decision to deny County Commissioner Greg “Hootie” Smith’s request for attorney’s fees.
CHARLESTON – In being named to the Emory Law 100, a prestigious listing of the famed Emory University Law School’s most illustrious graduates, Carte Goodwin said he is honored because of the former alumni whose company he will now keep.
DAVIS – West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Menis Ketchum and Court Clerk Rory Perry will speak this weekend at a legal education seminar about the court’s Pattern Jury Instructions that were published last year.
