Cohen CHARLESTON -- Missing pants and a drunken fall from a horse are behind two lawsuits a state legal reform group calls this year's biggest turkeys.
Cohen CHARLESTON – The leader of a statewide legal reform group says he is concerned that key legislative leaders received major campaign contributions from personal injury lawyers. But at least one of those leaders is fighting back, saying West Virginia Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse should reveal its donors.
WHEELING – An Ohio County judge says he needs more time to rule on how much attorneys will be paid in Attorney General Darrell McGraw's multi-million dollar case against Visa and MasterCard.
McGraw CHARLESTON - With less than a week before Election Day, the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce has started a $700,000 last-minute batch of attack ads aimed at Attorney General Darrell McGraw.
Hughes CHARLESTON – The executive director of a state legal reform group has questioned why Attorney General Darrell McGraw's chief deputy seemingly speaks for his re-election campaign to the press.
Greear COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Republican candidates for attorney general in Ohio and West Virginia have pledged to run their respective offices with a greater degree of transparency and accountability.
Cohen CHARLESTON -- In his campaign for the West Virginia Supreme Court, about all that most voters could well know about Menis Ketchum is that his last name is similar to that of the red-colored sauce served with your burger and fries.
McGraw CHARLESTON – Campaign finance records show Attorney General Darrell McGraw recently was given at least $3,000 in contributions from lawyers in a law firm that helped him sue Visa and MasterCard.
CHARLESTON -- When the trophies are presented at the Downtown Athletic Club this December in lower Manhattan, West Virginians will be cheering for their Number 5, Pat White, to carry the Heisman home to the Mountain State.
WHEELING – Thirty-five days after Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson gave himself 30 days to consider an objection to a $3.6 million fee for special assistants to Attorney General Darrell McGraw, Wilson has not released a decision.
McGraw CHARLESTON – Darrell McGraw's opponent in the general election has asked the attorney general to explain a fundraiser at the firm of an attorney who is in line to receive money after working as a special assistant.
McGraw WHEELING – West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw praises private lawyers who helped him settle a suit against Visa and MasterCard for $12.2 million, but neglects to mention that he originally sought $306 million.
CHARLESTON -- Poor Larry Starcher. He is under siege from a Freedom of Information Act request for his e-mails. The FOIA was filed by a West Virginia employer at the center of several cases the justice has heard on the Supreme Court.
Pressed for Time is located on Quarrier Street in downtown Charleston. (Photo by Chris Dickerson) CHARLESTON -- A Charleston attorney who has sued a dry cleaning store for missing clothes should be entitled to a reasonable amount of money if the court finds the cleaners responsible, but should not be awarded extravagant damages, according to the leader for a statewide legal reform group.
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw was all set to dole out another $3.9 million to his trial lawyer friends last week when something important happened at the courthouse.
McGraw CHARLESTON -- When House Bill 104 passed during the first Special Session of this year's state Legislature, it did so with little fanfare. Yet it represents to date the single act of oversight the Legislature has enacted over the state Attorney General's office.
WHEELING -- One method traditionally used by politicians to divert attention from their own shortcomings is to sling mud at their opponents. That's just what West Virginia Chief Deputy Attorney General Frances Hughes did last week in Wheeling.