News from December 2005
This just in: Kanawha County
Dec. 14
This just in: Putnam County
Dec. 22
This just in: Cabell County
Dec. 23
This just in: Monongalia County
Dec. 21
State legal community backs WVU football
CHARLESTON – With West Virginia University having the state's only law school, the West Virginia legal community has an unusually close tie to the school. And that bond extends to the football program, which is playing in its first Bowl Championship Series game when it takes on the University of Georgia in the Sugar Bowl in Atlanta on Jan. 2.
McGraw keeps legal fees funneling to AG office
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw CHARLESTON – When tobacco companies agreed to pay West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw more than $700,000 for his costs in suing them a few years ago, he could have handed it over to the state treasurer. Instead, McGraw found a way to keep every penny in his office.
Company claims Cabell restaurant owes rent for a year
HUNTINGTON – A Cabell County business is suing Tascali's Inc., claiming the Italian restaurant failed to pay rent for a year.
Nitro man seeks $20 million in five separate lawsuits
WINFIELD – A Nitro man has filed five separate lawsuits against a total of six people, seeking more than $4 million in each suit.
Words of Thanks and Admiration
Chief Justice Joseph P. Albright By Chief Justice Joseph P. Albright
Kanawha County woman says she was watched while in tanning bed
The South Charleston Community Center houses a 25-meter indoor swimming pool, two racquetball courts, basketball courts, tanning beds, a fully-equipped health club and a gymnasium that seats 1,500 people. CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County woman says her privacy was violated by someone watching her while she used a tanning bed at the South Charleston Community Center.
Kanawha woman says surgeon messed up gallbladder surgery
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County woman has sued a surgeon for what she claims was a botched gallbladder surgery.
Active soldier says his name was forged on vehicle loan
CHARLESTON – A West Virginia soldier currently on active duty in Iraq has filed a lawsuit trying to be removed from an automobile loan on which he claims his ex-wife forged his signature.
The A.G. who would be king
That Attorney General Darrell McGraw is developing his own shadow government, in effect, should be of major concern to not just our state Legislature and Gov. Joe Manchin, but all the people of this state.
Albright snaps back at Maynard's dissent in bounced check case
Justice Joseph Albright CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court case involving a woman who wrote a bounced check for car insurance simply won't die.
Blankenship is all about winning
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Woman says Putnam General, two doctors to blame for father's death
According to a lawsuit filed Dec. 13 in Putnam Circuit Court, Barbara Plumley is executrix of the estate of Clarence Setliff, who died Sept. 21, 2003.
Putnam couple says state damaged their property
WINFIELD – A Putnam County couple claims a state highways construction project damaged their property and that the state hasn't paid for taking and damaging the land.
Christmas bonus: Charleston attorneys get next installment for pressing OxyContin case
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw CHARLESTON – Five days before Christmas, West Virginia taxpayers sent Charleston attorneys David Brumfield and William Druckman checks for $208,333.31 each.
This just in: Putnam County
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This just in: Kanawha County
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