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Lawmaker wants PEIA to ask for Oxy money
McGraw CHARLESTON -- Before a state agency starts making budget cuts, one West Virginia lawmaker wants it to inquire about money that he feels it may be owed from state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's controversial 2004 OxyContin settlement. -
Berger nominated for federal bench
Berger CHARLESTON – President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he nominated Kanawha Circuit Judge Irene Berger to replace U.S. District Judge David Faber in West Virginia's Southern District. -
Group wants senators to probe Sotomayor on impartiality
Sotomayor CHARLESTON – A national court advocacy group wants U.S. Senators to grill Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her views on judicial impartiality and recusal during the confirmation process. -
THEIR VIEW: Sotomayor, life experiences and judges
MORGANTOWN -- A few of my lawyer friends have told me, only half-jokingly, that they prefer to argue before a judge who is fair ... unless, of course, they can have a judge who favors their point of view. -
Monongalia to get third circuit judge
Clawges CHARLESTON – Monongalia County soon will have a third circuit judge. -
THEIR VIEW: What's wrong with checking old comp claims?
CHARLESTON -- Paul Nyden recently had a article in the Sunday Gazette-Mail about how Sedgewick (the folks handling the Old Fund Workers' Comp claims) is denying some Workers' Comp recipients disability benefits. -
Deception includes stories about multi-million judgment
CHARLESTON - In addition to at least three other former clients, Jessica L. Toler led a Wyoming County man to believe that he not only won a multi-million dollar malpractice settlement, but also many federal agencies and officials, including former President George W. Bush, had taken an interest in his case. -
Aboulhosn to lead bridge dedication
Aboulhosn LAKE SHAWNEE -– Mercer Circuit Judge Omar Aboulhosn will lead a Memorial Day ceremony dedicating a bridge in honor of a soldier killed in Iraq. -
THEIR VIEW: I thought these coal companies were evil?
If you believe the enviros, the coal companies are evil. -
THEIR VIEW: Judge Webster? Hell may soon freeze over
Sprouse CHARLESTON -- I read the recent article in the Daily Mail about Judge Irene Berger getting fast tracked into a federal judgeship. And, while it will be a blessing to get her off the Circuit Court, a lifetime appointment on the Federal Bench is a little scary. -
Witnesses at mental health hearing say state needs more community services
CHARLESTON -- More than a dozen people testified during two days of an evidentiary hearing into problems in West Virginia's mental health system, but most of them on both sides of the case expressed one recurring theme: The state needs to restore the types of community-based mental health services it once had. -
THEIR VIEW: Is her name Judge Rip Van Bailey-Walker?
CHARLESTON -- Is it possible that Judge Jennifer Bailey Walker just awoke from a long slumber? Oh, say for at least four months? -
Canterbury reappointed to CSG Justice Center board
Canterbury CHARLESTON -- A state official has been reappointed to the board of directors of a national state government council's Justice Center. -
THEIR VIEW: Thompson's Rasputin is hurting the House
CHARLESTON -- I never thought I'd say this, but boy-o-boy does the House of Delegates miss Bob Kiss. -
Berkeley judge planning SC run
Yoder MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court race of 2010 has its first candidate, a circuit judge from the Eastern Panhandle. -
THEIR VIEW: Kessler would make good Democratic candidate
Sprouse CHARLESTON -- I have had my problems with Jeff Kessler from time to time. But, especially considering his potential opponents in the Democratic primary in 2012, he would make a good candidate for Governor. -
Magistrate bill withers in committee
Canterbury CHARLESTON – A bill proponents believed would bring more focus to magistrate elections failed to emerge from the House Judiciary Committee, rendering the bill dead for the session. -
McHugh vows to avoid 'double dipping'
McHugh CHARLESTON -- Many people have called state Supreme Court Justice Thomas McHugh an honorable and fair man. And one act might prove that as much as any ruling he's ever made or any opinion he's ever written. -
Leaders, colleagues heap praise on McHugh
Manchin CHARLESTON – When it came time for Gov. Joe Manchin to appoint someone to the state Supreme Court, he said he never thought the mission would be so easy. -
Supreme Court public financing bill fails
Kessler CHARLESTON -- A proposal to use public funds to finance state Supreme Court campaigns has died in the state Legislature.