CHARLESTON -- An attorney representing the state Department of Health and Human Resources has asked the state Supreme Court to tell a Kanawha County Circuit judge to back off from his attempt to require the department to change the way it deals with people with mental illness.
ELKINS – U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey soon will decide whether to hear a suit claiming the state Division of Natural Resources violated the rights of the Constitution Party of West Virginia.
McGraw CHARLESTON - While state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office appeals, an injunction against recently passed campaign advertising disclosure laws will remain.
Ireland BLUEFIELD - The amendment of a few West Virginia campaign laws has negated a nonprofit group's attack on the originals, a federal judge recently decided.
Walker CHARLESTON -- Republican state Supreme Court candidate Beth Walker recently was awarded the 2008 Healthcare Leadership Award by the West Virginia State Medical Association.
Underwood CHARLESTON -- A former managing partner of a Charleston accounting firm and a former Kentucky worker are two of about 15 people attorney Mark Underwood has represented in suits this year against insurance companies, alleging they were denied benefits.
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CHARLESTON - The group that's advertisements have infuriated state Attorney General Darrell McGraw started challenging the state's campaign laws earlier this year.
Greear CHARLESTON -- A state legal reform group supports Republican Attorney General candidate Dan Greear's decision to adopt a outside counsel transparency code of conduct, and encourages current officeholder Darrell McGraw to do the same.
Cohen CHARLESTON - It looks like the contentious election season of 2004 has not been forgotten four years later -- and its legacy is still causing controversy.
ELKINS – Leaders of the Constitution Party of West Virginia can't sue director Frank Jezioro of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources over a ban on politics in state parks, his attorney argues at U.S. District Court in Elkins.
Greear CHARLESTON – Dan Greear, the Republican candidate for state Attorney General, has agreed to abide by a transparency code crafted by the American Tort Reform Association if he is elected.
McGraw WHEELING – Campaign contributors given state contracts by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw will try to stake their claims to portions of nearly $4 million in fees in August.
Webster CHARLESTON – A state legal watchdog group is unhappy with proposed legislation that would force it to reveal its largest financial backers if it wants to make campaign contributions, claiming it is a violation of its right to free speech.
CHARLESTON – Nineteen years after Cabell County jurors convicted Gary Allen Gibson of conspiracy in a prison killing, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has set aside his conviction.