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WV CALA lists its 'Dirty Dozen' legislative candidates
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group has released its list of legislative candidates who have accepted the most money from personal injury lawyers. -
Wooton campaign responds to negative television ad
BECKLEY – The state Supreme Court campaign for Bill Wooton has responded to a recent statewide television ad with one of its own. -
Capito working to improve energy for West Virginians
WASHINGTON – I recently took several steps to promote more affordable, reliable and efficient energy. -
TV ad critical of McGraw and Wooton; Benjamin condemns ad campaign
CHARLESTON – A new television ad critical of two state Supreme Court candidates has been condemned by a third candidate. -
Impact of Upper Big Branch felt throughout West Virginia
CHARLESTON – A top underground mine safety attorney says he still wants answers as to what caused the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 miners. -
Public comment period begins on Huntington hospital merger
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has announced the beginning of the public comment period regarding the proposed merger between two Huntington hospitals. -
'Mr. Social Security' accused of defrauding government of $600M
LEXINGTON, Ky. – An eastern Kentucky attorney who bills himself as “Mr. Social Security” has been charged with defrauding the federal government of more than $600 million. Eric Conn was arrested April 4. In his indictment, unsealed April 5, a federal grand jury found probable cause to believe Conn conspired to rig hundreds of disability claims from 2004 to 2012. The grand jury also indicted Social Security Administration appeals judge David B. Daugherty of Huntington as well as Pikeville, Ky., p -
Disability attorney jailed on undisclosed charges
PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Disability attorney Eric C. Conn was arrested Monday and is currently in the Pike County Detention Center and no bond has been set. Conn was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and is held for U.S. Marshals. He is being held on undisclosed federal charges. -
Morrisey says office with continue fight against fraud despite governor’s veto
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is voicing his displeasure with a bill Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed that affects investigators from the AG's office. -
Walker, others pull in endorsements
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court campaign for Beth Walker has announced some recent endorsements. -
Legislature helped its corporate backers, failed to tackle real issues
CHARLESTON – The 2016 West Virginia Legislative session has been called one of the worst ever by media outlets and organizations statewide. West Virginia is facing real challenges right now. Our roads are bad. We have a huge budget deficit. Millions of dollars have been cut from our schools. Coal is in decline and West Virginia workers need to be retrained for 21st century jobs. A financial crisis is looming. -
Manchin to host town hall meeting on Supreme Court nominee
CHARLESTON – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin will hold a town hall meeting next week to talk to West Virginians about President Barack Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court. Obama has nominated Merrick Garland for Supreme Court earlier this week. The town hall meeting will be held on March 24. -
Judge rules against WVU in Teamsters' FOIA lawsuit
MORGANTOWN – A circuit judge has ruled against West Virginia University Board of Governors in a Freedom of Information Act suit filed last month by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. WVU must provide all the requested e-mail communications without redactions and is ordered to produce an index identifying the withheld documents; and provide the index and the actual documents to the court for review. -
Legislature continues focus on needed lawsuit reforms
CHARLESTON – As the curtain falls on this year’s legislative session, we all should applaud the members of the West Virginia Legislature for their abilities to tackle big issues, particularly lawsuit reforms, which will move our state forward and into the national mainstream. -
State leaders criticize Clinton's anti-coal comment
CHARLESTON – Several state leaders are taking issue with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments that she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Clinton’s comment came Sunday during a town hall meeting in Columbus, Ohio. -
CALA praises work of legislative session
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group praised the West Virginia Legislature for the work done in the session that ended March 12. “We applaud the members of the West Virginia Legislature for their abilities to tackle big issues, particularly lawsuit reforms, which will move our state forward and into the national mainstream,” said Roman Stauffer, executive director of West Virginia Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. “This session they continued to focus on much-needed lawsuit reforms that wil -
Judge: Justice companies owe $2M from 2013 coal deal
BECKLEY – A federal judge says two companies owned by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice owe more than $2 million from a 2013 coal deal. On March 11, U.S. District Judge Irene Berger issued a memorandum opinion and order granting summary judgment to Thomas K. Lampert of Pennsylvania. He is trustee for the Thomas K. Lampert Irrevocable Trust. Last year, Lampert sued Tams Management Inc. and Southern Coal Corporation in federal court. It says the companies – owned by Justice – didn’t p -
AG outside counsel bill signed into law
CHARLESTON – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has sign a bill into law that will codify current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s outside counsel policy. House Bill 4007 already had passed once this session, but Tomblin vetoed it because he thought it was too broad and gave the AG too much power. The bill was reworked and passed again. On March 9, Tomblin signed it. -
Groups hail second passage of AG outside counsel bill
CHARLESTON – State and national groups are praising the West Virginia Legislature’s passage of a bill that would codify current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s outside counsel policy. House Bill 4007 already was passed once this session, but Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed it because he thought it was too broad and gave the AG too much power. -
Unger drops lawsuit over state Senate meeting on Sunday
CHARLESTON – A state Senator who had filed a lawsuit to prevent the state Senate from meeting on Sunday has dropped the matter. Sen. John Unger (D-Berkeley) filed his petition Feb. 24 in Kanawha Circuit Court against state Senate President Bill Cole. A hearing was set for Friday before Judge Jim Stucky, but Unger dropped the case Thursday after reaching an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Mitch Carmichael.