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W.Va. to host prestigious 2014 court conference
Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis speaks during Wednesday's press conference to announce the Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators will have their 2014 meeting at The Greenbrier. (Photo by Chris Dickerson) CHARLESTON – West Virginia has been selected to serve as host to the 2014 Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators. -
Mason commission can't rescind toll vote, Justices rule
CHARLESTON -- The state Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday concluded that the Mason County Commission "had no legal authority" to rescind its previous resolution approving a controversial parkways project. -
Justices rule for WVSSAC; So. Chas. out of title game
Webster CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has decided a Kanawha County judge overstepped her authority when she tossed out the suspensions of four South Charleston High School football players. -
Group calls Johnson & Johnson decision 'a victory'
McGraw WASHINGTON -- A Washington, D.C.-area public interest law and policy center called last month's decision by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in favor of Janssen Pharmaceutica and its parent company Johnson & Johnson a "victory." -
Decision on U.S. 35 tolls awaits Mason commission's answer
CHARLESTON – Until it has heard from Mason County commissioners, the state Supreme Court has deferred rendering a decision on compelling the state Parkways Authority to move forward with proposed tolls on U.S. 35. -
Justices remand grave desecration case to Logan County
McHugh CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday remanded to a lower court the case of alleged grave desecration by a company working to relocate a gas pipeline. -
Justices side with Johnson & Johnson on appeal
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday found that a lower court erred in finding that communications from Janssen Pharmaceutica and its parent company Johnson & Johnson to state health care providers were false and misleading. -
DuPont wants handwritten documents from 8,500 smelter plaintiffs
CHARLESTON -- The chemical giant DuPont now wants the 8,500 people who brought a pollution case against the company to provide it with handwritten documents. -
Court suspends Charleston lawyer in black lung case
Smoot CHARLESTON –- Withholding records in a black lung case has resulted in disciplinary action against a Charleston attorney. -
Court sends plane crash case back to Kanawha
Benjamin CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has found that a lower court erred in dismissing a case in which two Canadian residents died in a 2008 plane crash in Virginia, 20 miles from the West Virginia border. -
Caperton refiles Massey suit in Virginia
Caperton CHARLESTON -- Former coal mine operator Hugh Caperton on Tuesday refiled a lawsuit against Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy Co. -
Supreme Court remands Cabell wrongful death case
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's order to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against a construction company. -
Justices reverse Hancock Co. discrimination ruling
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed a circuit court's ruling that an in-state company discriminated against and wrongfully terminated one of its employees. -
Business Court Committee agrees on mission, schedules public forum
Pratt CHARLESTON -- The Business Court Committee established by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals met by conference call Oct. 28 and passed a resolution setting its mission, comprehensive plan and vision. -
PERSONNEL FILE: Cox named 'Lawyer of the Year'
Cox CHARLESTON -- The management team of the law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that T. Randolph Cox has been named the "Charleston, WV Best Lawyers Government Relations Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. -
Davis will be on the ballot in 2012
Davis CHARLESTON -– Robin Jean Davis said she will be on the ballot for the 2012 election. -
McHugh ready for two more years
McHugh CHARLESTON – Campaigning for a statewide election isn't the same as it was 30 years ago. Just ask Thomas McHugh. -
Petitions are public records, Justices rule
Ketchum CHARLESTON -- Publisher Thomas Harding of the Observer in Shepherdstown won a crusade for free press and free information, right on time for everyone but himself. -
Justices won't budge on statute of limitations
Davis CHARLESTON –- Statutes of limitations sometimes stretch, but the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals didn't yield a day in a wrongful death suit from Fayette County. -
Ketchum reverses course, recuses himself
CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Menis Ketchum on Monday recused himself in a pending case on the state's damage caps in malpractice cases.