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Recent News About West Virginia Supreme Court

• Kanawha school board goes to Supreme Court for more state aid

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Oct 27, 2006 @ 5:15am

  CHARLESTON – Kanawha County Board of Education members want the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to award them a bigger share of state school aid.

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• Nationwide Insurance plaintiffs resist transfer to Roane County

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Oct 27, 2006 @ 4:45am

  CHARLESTON – Nationwide Mutual Insurance policyholders who sued the insurer in Jefferson and Marshall counties don't want anyone settling their claims in Roane County.

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• Court to decide if jury cheated dead man's sons

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Oct 27, 2006 @ 4:15am

  CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide whether prejudice in an Ohio County jury cheated a dead man's sons out of a fair verdict.

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• Allstate asks Supreme Court for relief

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Oct 26, 2006 @ 7:30am

  CHARLESTON - Allstate Insurance wants the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to relieve it of a duty to analyze 10 years of property damage claims.

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• Dead smokers dismissed from class action suit

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Oct 20, 2006 @ 3:10am

  Recht WHEELING – Ohio Circuit Judge Arthur Recht has dismissed 162 dead cigarette smokers from a statewide class action suit against tobacco companies.

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• Judges, journalists swap roles at conference

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Oct 19, 2006 @ 9:00am

  WHEELING – Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King compared his job to ditch digging as journalists and judges reversed roles at a statewide judicial education conference Oct. 17.

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• Justices restore $1 million trust to UMWA

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Oct 13, 2006 @ 2:55am

  CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously restored a $1 million trust fund that the United Mine Workers of America lost in the financial collapse of Blue Cross Blue Shield of West Virginia.

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• Justices fire Huntington fireman

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 @ 5:22am

  CHARLESTON – Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals fired a fireman whose urine sample suspiciously resembled tap water.

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• Supreme Court to hear arguments at Wheeling

  By The West Virginia Record | Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 @ 2:44pm

  WHEELING -– The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will hear arguments in three cases Oct. 19 on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University.

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• PERSONNEL FILE: New lawyers admitted to Bar

  By The West Virginia Record | Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006 @ 2:59am

  CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals admitted the following into the practice of law in West Virginia on Oct. 5:

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• U.S. Supreme Court may hear venue case

  By Steve Korris | Monday, Oct 9, 2006 @ 9:40am

  WASHINGTON, D. C. – Two corporations have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, allowing a Virginia man to sue them in West Virginia over injuries from an accident in Virginia.

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• Justices seem skeptical in case of firefighter caught with crack

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Oct 5, 2006 @ 4:43am

  CHARLESTON – Michael Giannini might as well push a rock uphill as try to win back his job as a Huntington firefighter after getting caught with crack cocaine.

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• Court to decide if firefighter should lose his job

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Sep 29, 2006 @ 3:44am

  CHARLESTON – Folks in Huntington cannot decide if firefighter Michael Giannini should lose his job for getting busted near a crack house, so the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals must decide.

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• State Supreme Court receives grants

  By The West Virginia Record | Wednesday, Sep 27, 2006 @ 4:39pm

  CHARLESTON –- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has received two federal grants that will help it collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Resources to improve management of child abuse and neglect cases.

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• 'Consumers for Justice' files bankruptcy in wrong court

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 @ 12:14pm

  CHARLESTON – West Virginia Consumers for Justice, supporters of Warren McGraw in his unsuccessful run for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 2004, made a mistake last month by declaring bankruptcy in federal court here.

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• Fairnont attorney Niggemyer faces suspension

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 @ 5:12am

  CHARLESTON – Attorney Michael Niggemyer of Fairmont should stop practicing law until he complies with a disciplinary order of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, according to the state Office of Disciplinary Counsel.

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• West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals visits Marshall University

  By Drew Smith | Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 @ 4:08am

  Chief Justice Robin Davis HUNTINGTON -- A diverse crowd was on hand Tuesday at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse to witness the West Virginia legal system up close and personal.

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• Toler files suit against State and Supreme Court

  By Ann Knef | Monday, Sep 18, 2006 @ 1:40am

  William "Tommy" Toler Suspended Wayne County Magistrate William Thomas "Tommy" Toler is suing the state of West Virginia and the West Virginia Supeme Court of Appeals for not making contributions to his retirement and disability insurance plans and for exceeding the scope of their authority under Judicial Disciplinary Rules.

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• Jurors reject 'life care plan' proposals

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Sep 14, 2006 @ 2:30am

  CHARLESTON – Attorneys from Virginia tried to sell a $1.7 million "life care plan" to West Virginia jurors on behalf of accident victim Ann Alderman of Pocahontas County, but jurors did not buy the plan.

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• Marshall University's Constitution Week schedule

  By The West Virginia Record | Wednesday, Sep 13, 2006 @ 6:01pm

  Here are the events scheduled at Marshall for Constitution Week. For more information, call the Drinko Academy at (304) 696-3183.

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