CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court agreed with Ohio Circuit Court that there was no indication that Werner Enterprises knew or should have known of a potential lawsuit against it when it destroyed evidence.
CINCINNATI – An Ohio federal judge last week sent a lawsuit filed by a Portsmouth-based nursing home facility against Mississippi law firm McHugh Fuller Law Group back to a state court.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia attorney's law license be suspended for 90 days following multiple complaints after her work.
CHARLESTON – An attorney involved in a major nursing home verdict last year has filed a motion in another case saying West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis should recuse herself from hearing a petition in a similar case.
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis has declined to recuse herself from hearing arguments in a case involving a law firm that bought a Learjet from her husband’s firm for more than $1 million.
CHARLESTON – The attorney at the center of the LearJet saga that involves a state Supreme Court justice and her lawyer husband says he and his firm have done nothing wrong.
CHARLESTON – One attorney has written a letter to the state Supreme Court saying he believes Justice Robin Jean Davis should recuse herself from a nursing home case because of her husband's sale of an airplane to the plaintiffs' law firm in the case.
CHARLESTON – More than four out of five West Virginia voters surveyed said they think state Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis should have publicly disclosed her husband's sale of an airplane to another attorney appearing before the Court.
CHARLESTON - Attorneys at McHugh Fuller returned to Charleston on Friday for the first time since news broke that the law firm had donated more than 10 times the amount of money in 2012 that it had previously donated.
CHARLESTON – Two state groups have diverse viewpoints about the West Virginia Supreme Court being listed third on the annual Judicial Hellholes report.
WASHINGTON – West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals has been ranked as the third worst Judicial Hellhole, according to the American Tort Reform Association’s annual report.
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group is calling on West Virginia judges, political candidates and parties to return more than $100,000 in contributions from a Mississippi-based law firm connected to a recent national news report.
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group says it has questions it believe West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis should answer in the wake of an ABC News report earlier this week.
CHARLESTON – Scott Segal calls the ABC News report focusing on his wife – West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis – a “hatchet job.”
CHARLESTON – The nursing home company at the center of a high-profile case – and now a high-profile national news story – says the discovery of an undisclosed jet sale between the husband of West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis and the plaintiffs attorney in the case is “extremely troubling.”
