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Thursday, November 21, 2024

News from October 2010


Farmer McGraw

By The West Virginia Record |
West Virginia isn't known for soybean farming. Until now, at least.

Plaintiffs suing Texas firm want depositions in N.C., not W.Va.

By Steve Korris |
WHEELING - Thirteen North Carolina men alleging legal malpractice against Provost Umphrey of Beaumont, Texas, want U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert to move their depositions from Wheeling to locations near their homes.

Mason man files two suits against himself

By Lawrence Smith |
POINT PLEASANT -– In two lawsuits pending in Mason Circuit Court, the plaintiffs and defendants are one in the same.

Judge not sealing document in oil, gas royalties case

By Steve Korris |
Goodwin CHARLESTON - Lawyers wrapping up a $50 million settlement of litigation against Dominion Resources over oil and gas royalties decided too late that they needed to hide the reasons why some lease holders didn't participate.

CIVIL FILINGS: Kanawha County

By Kyla Asbury |
Oct. 15

CIVIL FILINGS: Putnam County

By Chris Dickerson |
Oct. 21

CIVIL FILINGS: Cabell County

By Kyla Asbury |
Oct. 18

CIVIL FILINGS: Monongalia County

By Donna K. Carlson |
Oct. 13

CIVIL FILINGS: Berkeley County

By Beth Henry |
Oct. 6

PVH named in wrongful death of Jackson woman's baby

By Lawrence Smith |
POINT PLEASANT -– A Jackson County woman is accusing the staff at a Mason County hospital in the negligent delivery of her baby.

Police officer sues McDonald's franchisee over blood-laced order

By Lawrence Smith |
This McDonald's restaurant on Ohio Avenue in Parkersburg is where Matthew Board alleges he found droplets of blood in his drive-thru order in 2008. (Photo by Lawrence Smith) PARKERSBURG -– A Parkersburg police officer is suing a McDonald's restaurant for effectively turning his drive-thru order into a crime scene.

Doctor, government agencies sued over clogged storm drain

By Lawrence Smith |
Water that accumulated at this building on Camden Avenue in Parkersburg is what Steven and Debra Momish say later flooded into their apartment across the street. (Photo by Lawrence Smith) PARKERSBURG – A Wood county couple allege a physician, the city of Parkersburg, the Wood County Commission and the state of West Virginia share responsibility for water damage their apartment sustained earlier this year.

Business Court Committee agrees on mission, schedules public forum

By Chris Dickerson |
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.

Goodwin won't budge on Digitek decision

By Steve Korris |
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Plaintiff lawyers who couldn't keep up with U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek couldn't convince him he made a mistake when he rejected a class action for economic losses.

Webster refuses to let man being arraigned go vote

By Chris Dickerson |
Webster CHARLESTON -- A Kanawha Circuit judge refused to allow a man being arraigned on a murder charge go vote.

Kanawha candidates bicker to the wire

By Chris Dickerson |
Greear CHARLESTON -– With less than a week before Election Day, the campaigns for the two candidates for Kanawha Circuit Judge still were bickering.

Federal judge freezes Massey suit against regulators

By Steve Korris |
WASHINGTON – A federal judge has frozen all action in Massey Energy's suit seeking relief from federal mine regulators.

Judge wrong about pardon letter, Justices rule

By Steve Korris |
Ketchum CHARLESTON – Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges exceeded his authority when he ordered clerks of the Legislature to delete a letter about a pardon from their journals, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.

PERSONNEL FILE: Cox named 'Lawyer of the Year'

By The West Virginia Record |
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.

PERSONNEL FILE: Tiffany Davis joins Jackson Kelly

By The West Virginia Record |
Davis MORGANTOWN – Tiffany B. Davis recently joined Jackson Kelly as an associate in the Morgantown office.