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Recent News About Powell And Majestro

• Loughry: Motion to expedite 'inaccurate,' result of 'dawdling'

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Monday, Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:30am

  Loughry CHARLESTON - West Virginia Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry argues in a federal court filing that Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan's recent motion to expedite is "replete with inaccurate and unsupported" facts and the result of his own "dawdling."

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• Callaghan files motion to expedite in campaign financing suit

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Friday, Aug 24, 2012 @ 7:30am

  Callaghan CHARLESTON - Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan on Thursday filed a motion to expedite briefing in a federal lawsuit over West Virginia's Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program.

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• W.Va. SC denies Callaghan's motion to intervene

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 @ 10:15am

  Callaghan CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has denied Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan's motion to intervene in a lawsuit over the state's Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program.

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• Loughry says W.Va. SC should deny motion to intervene

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 @ 1:00pm

  Loughry CHARLESTON - West Virginia Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry says the plaintiff in a federal case over the state's Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program has "no constitutional rights" to intervene in a separate but related lawsuit filed in the state's high court.

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• W.Va. SC sets arguments in campaign finance case

  By Jessica M. Karmasek | Friday, Aug 10, 2012 @ 9:35am

  Loughry CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a case over the constitutionality of the state's Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program next month.

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• Former W.Va. Democratic Party chairman challenges candidate financing program

  By Jessica M. Karmasek and Chris Dickerson | Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 @ 4:30am

  Callaghan CHARLESTON - The former chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party is suing the secretary of state and members of the State Election Commission in federal court, saying the matching funds provision of the Supreme Court's public campaign financing pilot program is unconstitutional.

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• PERSONNEL FILE: Majestro named WVAJ Member of the Year

  By The West Virginia Record | Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 @ 3:00am

  Majestro CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Association for Justice named Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro the organization's 2012 Stanley E. Preiser Member of the Year at its annual convention earlier this month.

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• Boating deaths result in lawsuits

  By Kelly Holleran | Thursday, Sep 17, 2009 @ 3:40am

  CHARLESTON – The drowning deaths of two young children and their aunt has created a battle of lawsuits between survivors of the boating accident and owners of the towboat that collided with the personal watercraft on which the children and their aunt were riding.

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• Attorneys victims of real estate scam, suit alleges

  By Lawrence Smith | Friday, Jan 23, 2009 @ 2:15am

  PARKERSBURG - Two attorneys are seeking return of money they say a Wood County man swindled from them in a bogus real estate deal.

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• Couple claim they were injured by hospital's faulty emergency room doors

  By Lawrence Smith | Thursday, Sep 11, 2008 @ 3:21am

  PARKERSBURG – While most people go to a hospital emergency room seeking treatment for injuries, one couple alleges a Wood County hospital's emergency room injured them.

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• Woman sues over fish bones

  By John O'Brien | Friday, Dec 15, 2006 @ 2:50am

  CHARLESTON - A woman has a bone to pick with Red Lobster, mostly because she says the restaurant gave her a bone to pick out of her throat.

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• Man sues over checks forged by cleaning lady

  By John O'Brien | Wednesday, Nov 22, 2006 @ 7:00am

  CHARLESTON - A Kanawha County man says his cleaning lady stole his checks and began forging them, leading to a dispute with a collection service.

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• Charleston lawyers all over federal class action cases

  By John O'Brien | Thursday, Aug 17, 2006 @ 2:45am

  CHARLESTON - Attorney James Peterson can be excused for not leading the crusade against alleged organ-snatchers from New Jersey.

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• Coal company sued over avalanche

  By John O'Brien | Thursday, Jun 22, 2006 @ 3:31am

  CHARLESTON - A Fayette County man says he was injured by falling rocks while working at a coal mining site.

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