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PERSONNEL FILE: Dettinger named to national A&D list
CHARLESTON – Steptoe & Johnson member G. Kurt Dettinger has been named to Oil and Gas Investor’s 20 Under 40 for principals and advisors in asset acquisitions and divestitures. -
Humphreys misled Va. flood clients, suit alleges
CHARLESTON – A prominent Charleston attorney is being taken to court for allegedly failing to properly represent a Virginia couple in a flood case and lying about it. -
Morrisey urges FCC to allow call-blocking technology
CHARLESTON — Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday joined 38 other states and territories in a letter urging the Federal Communications Commission to allow phone companies to utilize call-blocking technologies that would better protect consumers from unwanted calls and scams. -
Politicians worried about themselves, not miners
WILLIAMSON – It's election time, and Nick Rahall says he is fighting for coal, featuring me in his political TV ads, and criticizing the EPA. -
W.Va, Ky. AGs want court to speed up EPA suit
ASHLAND, Ky. – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and AGs from 11 other states filed a motion Wednesday to expedite the process on a lawsuit they filed against the Environmental Protection Agency last month. -
State Chamber annual meeting, business summit set for next week
CHARLESTON – When the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s 78th Annual Meeting & Business Summit opens next Wednesday, Aug. 27 at The Greenbrier, it will do so with a record attendance of nearly 800 registrants. -
WV CALA updates 'Dirty Dozen' list
CHARLESTON – West Virginia trial lawyers are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on candidates running for or seeking re-election to the state Legislature. -
Morrisey announces support for Mooney in Second Congressional District
MARTINSBURG – A Republican nominee running for Congress has received an endorsement from state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. -
Our View: Radicals posing as moderates are still radicals
Natalie Tennant must think everyone in West Virginia is stupid. -
WV CALA says Trial lawyer political donations near $300K mark
CHARLESTON – So far in the 2014 election cycle, West Virginia trial lawyers have spent almost $300,000 supporting candidates. -
THEIR VIEW: Two new laws W.Va. employers must know about
The West Virginia Legislature’s 2014 regular session concluded (in March). Like in many states, the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill to increase the state minimum wage this year. -
WV CALA lists 'Dirty Dozen' state candidates funded by trial lawyers
CHARLESTON – A state legal reform group has released its “Dirty Dozen” list highlighting candidates funded in part by trial lawyers. -
Morrisey wants Charleston's gun law suit dismissed
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office has filed motions to intervene in and dismiss the City of Charleston's lawsuit regarding a state law that seeks to ensure firearm laws are applied uniformly across the state. -
Coal companies claim EPA boss not doing her job
WHEELING – A dozen coal and energy companies have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is not doing her job correctly in regards to the Clean Air Act. -
Legislature should restore overtime exemptions
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UPDATE: Critics call session 'ludicrous'
CHARLESTON – West Virginia lawmakers are calling the just-completed legislative session a productive one. -
36 AGs sign letter criticizing dead bill
CHARLESTON —Even though a House of Delegates bill targeting state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was declared dead before the end of the recently finished legislative session, a group of 36 attorneys general from across the country sent a letter denouncing the measure. -
WV SC hears appeal of $91M nursing home verdict
CHARLESTON -- The state Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the appeal of a high-profile $91 million jury award in a nursing home death case. -
House panel wants to take $12M from AG's consumer protection fund
CHARLESTON – A House Finance Committee proposal would take $12 million from state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s Consumer Protection Fund.