CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice has signed the bill creating an intermediate appellate court for West Virginia, and other legal reform legislation is expected to soon become law.
CHARLESTON – A bill that would create a new intermediate appellate court is headed to the governor's desk. On April 1, the state Senate concurred on amendments made in the House of Delegates to Senate Bill 275.
CHARLESTON – An amended bill that would create a new intermediate appellate court has passed the House of Delegates and now heads back to the state Senate.
CHARLESTON – National and statewide tort reform groups are praising West Virginia lawmakers for work on the COVID-19 immunity legislation that could be on the governor’s desk soon.
CHARLESTON – A West Virginia group committed to protected the 7th Amendment right to jury trial says the state Senate’s COVID-19 immunity bill is too broad and could take away citizens’ rights.
CHARLESTON – There are many uncertainties as the 2021 West Virginia legislative session begins, but a few perennial legal reform ideas will be considered.
The American Tort Reform Association says Republican incumbent Patrick Morrisey has declined to sign its Attorney General Transparency Code pledge and its 2020 State Attorney General Candidate Questionnaire while Democratic challenger Sam Brown Petsonk has yet to respond.
CHARLESTON – A statewide legal reform group says a "shady" and "sketchy outside group" is trying to be the state Supreme Court election. But a spokeswoman for the political action committee in question says it's the group fighting "corrupting influences of out-of-state money."
Dear Editor: Just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered our economy and will surely spawn nearly endless litigation, Judge Ron Wilson issued an order in his asbestos docket that is worth reviewing.
As businesses across West Virginia slowly begin to reopen, some do so with the fear of litigation. State Sen. Eric Tarr (R-Putnam) said he fears his and other small businesses across the state will be vulnerable to advantageous trial attorneys.
CHARLESTON – Businesses of all types are learning to adjust and adapt amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. That includes attorneys and law firms. But some people – including fellow lawyers – have called out some trial attorneys for advertising their services during the pandemic.
CHARLESTON – State lawmakers and others are discussing legislation to provide some sort of immunity to health care providers, businesses and others who have remained open during the Coronavirus pandemic. A group for trial attorneys, however, say the legislation is politically motivated and unnecessary.
CHARLESTON – State Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Trump feels so strongly about the creation of an intermediate appellate court that he took time to go to a House of Delegates public hearing to share his thoughts.
CHARLESTON – A legal reform group hails the state Senate passage of a bill that would create an intermediate court of appeals, but a group for trial attorneys still hopes the bill won’t become law.
