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Bill would prohibit specific damage demands in personal injury, wrongful death cases
Toriseva CHARLESTON -- Legislation that would prohibit attorneys from including specific financial demands for damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases has drawn support from both trial attorneys and defense counsel. -
AG will alert Legislature of potential windfalls
McGraw CHARLESTON - State lawmakers have passed a bill that will require the state's Attorney General to notify them of any large amounts of money that might be coming their way. -
Everyone on board with McGraw settlement
McGraw CHARLESTON - State lawmakers have stopped bickering with Attorney General Darrell McGraw long enough to agree with a settlement designed by McGraw and Gov. Joe Manchin that would use settlement dollars to create sales tax breaks. -
Two judicial-related bills moving along
Canterbury CHARLESTON -- Two bills –- one adding three circuit judges and another allowing judges to pull jurors from neighboring counties in certain cases -– continue to move through the legislative process. -
Under The Dome for 3/10 issue
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Group wants lawmakers to follow Mississippi's lead
McGraw CHARLESTON - Recent scandals may not make Mississippi seem like much of a legal role model, but a West Virginia legal reform group would like to see its state take some of the same measures. -
Purdue Pharma had say in use of settlement funds, McGraw says
McGraw CHARLESTON -- It wasn't just state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's idea to spend $10 million from a 2004 settlement the way it was spent, his office recently said. -
Bills adding circuit judges, expanding jury pools moving on
Canterbury CHARLESTON -- Rock singer Meatloaf once said two out of three ain't bad. -
What will you be doing in the year 2015?
CHARLESTON -- What will be happening in the year 2015? -
Press, MU ready to poke some fun at state leaders with 'Third House'
CHARLESTON -– For the 19th consecutive year, members of the Capitol press corps are teaming up with the Marshall University W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SOJMC) to bring "The Third House" to the stage. -
CALA accuses McGraw of lying to Legislature
McGraw CHARLESTON - Exactly who state Attorney General Darrell McGraw was representing in a 2001 lawsuit has become the subject of much debate. -
Legislators: Put settlement funds in our hands
McCabe CHARLESTON - Legislators who have grilled state Attorney General Darrell McGraw over his appropriation of lawsuit settlement funds are sponsoring a bill that would eliminate his ability to do so in the future. -
Bastress, Maynard neither support nor oppose non-partisan judicial elections
Bastress CHARLESTON – When it comes to confessing belief or opposition to making judicial elections non-partisan, at least two candidates for state Supreme Court admit to being agnostic on the question. -
House speaker getting positive feedback on chancery idea
Thompson CHARLESTON - House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson awaits Senate action on a first step toward creating a chancery court where business owners could resolve disputes. -
McGraw still fighting Legislature over painkiller money
McGraw CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Darrell McGraw continued to bicker with members of the Legislature Tuesday as he defended his controversial $10 million OxyContin settlement. -
Under The Dome for 2/18 issue
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Workman loves 'work of the court'
Workman CHARLESTON – Margaret Workman has a few reasons for wanting her old job back. -
Albright unaware of attorney's contributions, handling of son's ethics complaint
CHARLESTON – A state Supreme Court justice is surprised to find out that an appellant named in a case the Court is scheduled to hear this week not only contributed to at least two of his bids for the Court, but also did so while investigating an ethics complaint against his son. -
CALA blasts Grisham over W.Va. comments about his new book
Grisham CHARLESTON –- A West Virginia legal reform group is throwing the book at what it calls John Grisham's blind-sided view of special interest influence in the judicial process. -
Under The Dome for 2/11 issue
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