CHARLESTON -- The following lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals on Dec. 10.
CHARLESTON – Despite the state Bar postponing action on a complaint it received for alleged unauthorized practice of law, a Hampshire County man now knows the identity of his accuser.
CHARLESTON -- During the week of Oct. 9, 116 lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during ceremonies before the Supreme Court of Appeals.
CHARLESTON – Pine logs rolled off a truck and killed a woman, but according to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals that doesn't make the truck driver a criminal.
Davis CHARLESTON - The state Supreme Court on Monday gave a plaintiff's medical expert a second chance to make a first impression, while a dissenting Chief Justice Robin Davis says the decision made bad law.
Benjamin CHARLESTON -- State Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin will read to about 100 third-grade students at Keyser Primary/Middle School in Mineral County at 1 p.m. Monday, April 16, as part of the West Virginia Court's Robes to Schools program.
CHARLESTON – Electrician David Kyle does not know why a fireball burned his face at Dana Transport in Nitro, but he wants to proceed with a lawsuit against the company anyway.
MORGANTOWN – In an ideal teaching moment for West Virginia University law students, the Supreme Court of Appeals wrestled with a case of a belligerent doctor and a dead baby.
Benjamin CHARLESTON – Land owners in highway condemnations can pry into appraisals of their neighbors in exceptional circumstances. But according to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, judges who allow the prying must explain the circumstances.
MARTINSBURG – If a disbarred attorney did anything good during his nine years in private practice, as one state Supreme Court justice suggested, court records show little evidence of it.
HARPER'S FERRY -– The story of West Virginia's first black attorney and the precedent-setting, equal-education case he won before the state Supreme Court was to be portrayed by a cast of judicial celebrities at the Niagara Movement's Centennial.
CHARLESTON -- The August 2006 report reflects progress in the state's economic development efforts during the past month, with projects and related announcements that will assist with the creation of as many as 800 new jobs and the preservation of a significant number of existing jobs.