CHARLESTON – West Virginia courts can close at noon on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, according to an Administrative Order issued by Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret L.
CHARLESTON – A new report from the clerk of the state Supreme Court stresses that the Justices have written a decision in every properly prepared appeal since rules changes took effect five years ago. In his report, Rory Perry, says 2011’s Revised Rules of Appellate Procedure allow all litigants to have their appeals reviewed on the merits. “Appeal by right means that each properly prepared appeal is required to be reviewed on the merits,” Perry writes in the report, which can be found online
CHARLESTON – A Pocahontas County attorney’s law license has been annulled in relation to two counts of sexual assault and two counts of forcing sexual intercourse on a prisoner. Jarrell L.Clifton II of Marlinton had his license annulled last month by the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
JULIAN – Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret Workman recently announced the appointment of Twenty-Ninth Judicial Circuit (Putnam County) Judge Phillip M.
WASHINGTON – West Virginia no longer is a Judicial Hellhole. The Mountain State, which perennially has been at or near the top of the American Tort Reform Association's annual list, has been moved to the "Watch List," according to the report released Thursday. In discussing West Virginia, the ATRA report commends state lawmakers for enacting reforms that it says has helped the state. "In an encouraging move that may yet stall, perennial Judicial Hellhole West Virginia has dramatically managed
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has issued a ruling regarding the prosecution's obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence during plea negotiations. In the appeal to the state Supreme Court, the court ruled that Joseph A.
BECKLEY – Former state legislator William R. “Bill” Wooton has announced plans to run for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. “It is with humility that I offer myself as a candidate for justice of the state Supreme Court,” Wooton, 71, said. “I have extraordinary respect for this body and the work that the justices do for West Virginia.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office has reached a $13 million settlement with CashCall, Inc., a non-bank private lender found to have engaged in abusive debt collections. The settlement, which was finalized last week in Kanawha Circuit Court, requires CashCall to make an immediate $10 million lump sum payment.
ROMNEY – It was just a little over four months ago that Circuit Judge Charles E. Parsons received a heart transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Earlier this month, the judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit of Hampshire, Hardy, and Pendleton counties returned the bench full-time after working hard on his recovery.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that a Raleigh County Board of Education employee's job duties are not enough to qualify her for a job title change she has been attempting to get since 2012. Wanda R.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that the downtime between transporting students in Jackson County between the schools and their vocational school does not count as hours worked. Edwin E.
CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has issued a decision stating that a couple failed to timely raise applicability of a savings statute in their lawsuit. Chief Justice Margaret L.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has affirmed an order that clerical work does not cause carpal tunnel syndrome. This appeal arises from the Board of Review’s Final Order dated Oct. 1, 2014, in which the Board reversed an April 1, 2014, order of the Workers' Compensation Office of Judges, the memorandum decision states.
MORGANTOWN – Retired Ohio Circuit Judge Arthur Recht will preside over a lawsuit involving a woman being sued by 30 of her neighbors for housing chickens on her property. An administrative order by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals was filed Nov. 10 in Monongalia Circuit Court, recalling Recht to hear the case. Monongalia Circuit Judges Phillip D.
CHARLESTON - The Committee to Re-elect Justice Brent Benjamin released a summary of the votes by the current justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in the 3,223 cases decided since January 2013.
We observed in an editorial last month, “Judges should recuse themselves not only from cases in which they have a conflict of interest, but also from ones in which there may be even the appearance of impropriety.” We noted that State Supreme Court Chief Justice Robin Davis seems oblivious to such concerns and that her cavalier approach has attracted national attention, securing her the starring role last year on ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline in a story headlined: “Lear Jet J
HUNTINGTON – The Cabell drug court received a new name and was rededicated during a ceremony Friday at Cabell County Courthouse. The ceremony was attended by drug court graduates, West Virginia Supreme Court Justices Brent Benjamin and Menis Ketchum, Drug Court Judge Patricia Keller, Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, Director of the Division of Probation Services Mike Lacy, and the rest of the Drug Court Treatment Team.
HUNTINGTON – The Cabell County Drug Court will be renamed in a ceremony scheduled for Nov. 6 at the Cabell County Courthouse. West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent D. Benjamin, Cabell County Drug Court Judge Patricia Keller and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams will attend the ceremony, which will be held at noon in Courtroom No. 1.
