CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined 35 states and the District of Columbia in urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly adopt proposed guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers. Morrisey and a bipartisan group of attorneys general believe the CDC’s guidelines provide additional guidance to doctors to better evaluate the potential benefit and harm of prescribing opioid painkillers, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. “Prescription dr
?MORGANTOWN – Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce Michael R. Proctor has been named partner. Proctor is among 14 attorneys from across the firm elected to partnership effective Jan. 1.
MOUNDSVILLE – Mason Energy LLC has filed a class action lawsuit against Chevron Appalachia LLC after it claims the company falsified production records. On Oct. 27, 2009, Beryl E.
MARTINSBURG – A former employee is suing U.S. Customs & Border Protection after he claims it has not responded to his FOIA request he made nearly a year ago. Dennis Finbarr Murphy was employed under a federal contract as an armed security guard at the CBP’s Advanced Training Center in Harpers Ferry until his termination in September 2014, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
WASHINGTON – Peggy L. Schultz, executive director of the Defense Trial Counsel of WV (DTCWV) has received the 2015 Inaugural Executive Director's Award for a State & Local Defense Organization Award from DRI - The Voice of Defense Bar. Schultz was honored during their recent Washington, D.C., annual meeting. The award recognizes the executive director who best fosters a relationship between a state defense organization and DRI and who has otherwise demonstrated exceptional service to the cause o
CHARLESTON – Clay County High School students won first place honors at the “We The People” state competition Dec. 15 at the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse in Charleston. The 12 students in the AP Government and Politics class, taught by Philip Dobbins, will represent West Virginia in the national competition in Washington, D.C., in April 2016.
PARKERSBURG – The next four trials in C8 litigation have been pushed back, so the second trial would not interfere with the holiday season. The second trial was supposed to begin on Nov. 30, but, as the first trial lasted longer than planned, if the second also lasted as long, it would interfere with the Christmas season. Kathy Brown of Kathy Brown Law said the second trial will now start on March 21.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has announced a multistate agreement with for-profit education company Education Management Corporation (EDMC) that will reform the company’s recruiting and enrollment practices, as well as forgive $445,973 in loans for about 428 West Virginia student enrolled in online courses. The agreement with attorneys general in 39 states plus the District of Columbia, through a consent judgment filed Nov. 16 in Kanawha Circuit Court, mandates a
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office, in cooperation with the U.S. Justice Department and other state attorneys general, has reached an agreement that allows Springleaf Holdings to proceed with its acquisition of OneMain Financial Holdings from CitiFinancial Credit Company. The settlement, announced Nov. 13, requires Springleaf to divest 127 branches from the merged company, including six in West Virginia where Springleaf and OneMain operate within the same are
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday said he is leading a 23-state federal lawsuit seeking to eliminate the U.S. EPA's new standards that would prohibit the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
CHARLESTON — A consumer representative from West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office will conduct mobile office hours during November throughout four counties.
MORGANTOWN – On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law will host a free intellectual property (IP) seminar for business owners, inventors, consultants, students and lawyers.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito vocalized her reasons on the Senate floor for the bipartisan resolution of disapproval she and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp introduced for the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan regulations for existing power sources. Capito (R.-W.Va.), spoke Tuesday as part of a colloquy with Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Environmental and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Steve Daines
WASHINGTON – West Virginia Senate President Bill Cole and House of Delegates Speaker Tim Armstead have been given an award for their contributions to reforming the state’s civil justice system. Cole and Armstead received the 2015 State Legislative Achievement Award at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) 16th Annual Legal Reform Summit on Oct. 27.
CHARLESTON – A former West Virginia University law professor says state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey didn’t need to step back from a case involving a company for which his wife was lobbying. On Oct. 25, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published a story says Morrisey gave “specific instructions” for his office’s lawsuits against Cardinal Health and other prescription drug makers.
