News from February 2009
Library rack contributed to couple's injuries, suit alleges
CHARLESTON - An elderly couple is suing the Kanawha County Public Library for injuries they allege they sustained while visiting one of the library's branches in 2007.
Logan man names two doctors in med mal suit
CHARLESTON - A Logan County man alleges two physicians contributed to him becoming disabled when they failed to diagnose and treat his symptoms of back pain.
Morgantown attorney helps host group of Afghan women lawyers
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets Parween Sultany Mascari, a Jackson Kelly attorney in the firm's Morgantown office, during a recent visit to Washington, D.C. Sultany Mascari was there to help host a visiting delegation of 14 prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. (Courtesy photo) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Bombs are set off in their front yards. Their children cannot go to school because it is too dangerous.
Dues admits to defaulting on 2004 auto refinance loan
CHARLESTON - After two years, a South Charleston attorney and former mental hygiene commissioner has accepted as fact, he and his wife defaulted on a $56,000 loan given to them by a Nicholas County financial services company to refinance two cars they previously owned.
Bar calls Dues' behavoir 'serious and disturbing'
CHARLESTON - Despite dismissing a collateral complaint Nicholas Loan and Mortgage filed against Ted Dues for committing fraud in refinancing a loan on two automobiles, the state Bar still had some harsh words for the allegations leveled against him.
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"Intentional. Premeditated. Criminal."
Car dealer wrong to sue Honda, Justices affirm
CHARLESTON – South Charleston auto dealer Lester Raines jumped the gun by suing his Honda distributor before it triggered a state law that kept dealers of the same brand at least 15 miles apart, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
Manchin court panel plan draws praise
Standing in front of House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-Wayne), Gov. Joe Manchin delivers his State of the State address Feb. 11. (Photo courtesy of the governor's office) CHARLESTON – In his State of the State address, Gov. Joe Manchin said he will sign an executive order to create a commission to study ways to modernize the state's court system.
Justices uphold firing of Pocahontas teacher
CHARLESTON -– Pocahontas County teacher Norman Alderman deserved to lose his job for calling his employers cockroaches, thieves and worse, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
PERSONNEL FILE: Huddleston Bolen attorneys to speak on gas, oil, mineral land laws
Plybon HUNTINGTON -- Attorneys Chris Plybon and Cindy McCarty will speak at the Gas, Oil, and Mineral Land Law Seminar on Feb. 20 in Charleston.
PERSONNEL FILE: Huddleston Bolen Legal Assistant earns CLA Professional Credential
HUNTINGTON -- Huddleston Bolen has announced that Brandy Hayton has successfully completed the Certified Legal Assistant examination and is now certified to use the "CLA" professional designation.
THEIR VIEW: More defense of Justice Benjamin
Emch CHARLESTON -- Chief Justice Brent Benjamin has for months been caught in a vicious cross-fire on a battlefield that he did not choose, in a war he did not start, among combatants with goals that they are willing to sacrifice him to achieve.
Woman says Moorefield officer sexually assaulted her
ELKINS -- A Monongalia and Grant County dual citizen is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages after she claims a Moorefield police officer sexually assaulted her during a traffic stop.
Class action claims Chrysler vehicles had defective engines
CHARLESTON – Automaker Chrysler owes West Virginians at least $5 million for selling vehicles with defective engines, according to a class action suit that Alabama lawyers filed for an Ohio couple in West Virginia.