HUNTINGTON – Three environmental groups have filed federal lawsuits against three coal companies, claiming the runoff from their mountaintop removal mining sites have polluted state waterways.
CHARLESTON – A father and his son are suing Kanawha County Sheriff Michael Rutherford after they claim he seized various items from their residence and has failed to return them.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has ruled a former Verizon employee is not entitled to unemployment benefits because she voluntarily left her job.
CHARLESTON – A former Mason County Sheriff’s deputy will no longer be allowed to carry a badge and gun, and will have to make his case for wrongful termination before a judge in that county.
CHARLESTON – A South Carolina man is alleging a Kanawha County family law judge has allowed a court-appointed guardian to remain in the case despite a conflict of interest.
WINFIELD – A Kanawha County woman is suing CAMC Teays Valley Hospital, Inc., for injuries a member of her family allegedly suffered while in the hospital’s care.
CHARLESTON – A judge is recommending a disbarred Charleston attorney get probation and make restitution to one of his former clients from whom he allegedly swindled nearly $60,000 of his life savings.
CHARLESTON – The state’s high court has rejected the sanctions recommended by the Lawyer Disciplinary Board for an attorney’s failure to timely communicate with clients, instead applying a stiffer sanction to the assistant Kanawha County Public Defender.
