CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) – Campaign attack ads accusing judicial figures of being soft on crime influence their decisions, according to new research sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court has responded to calls for changes to the Business Court Division, implementing several since first approving Trial Court Rule 29 and establishing the procedures for the special forum.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - A series of recent West Virginia Supreme Court decisions confirms that if employers carefully draft arbitration agreements that comply with the court’s case law, they will likely be enforced, according to Joseph Leonoro, a labor and employment lawyer in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - In the past year, the West Virginia Supreme Court has issued three decisions that signify a potential shift in the state’s stance toward arbitration agreements.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has reduced the amount of punitive damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against a nursing home from $80 million to approximately $32 million.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has issued a ruling affirming the Pocahontas Circuit Court's issuing of summary judgment in favor of Snowshoe Mountain in a class action alleging the ski resort breached its contract.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has certified a class action lawsuit against Charleston Area Medical Center for allegedly accidentally placing a database containing medical information on the Internet, while a dissenting justice claims the case is an example of a frivolous class action.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court has agreed that a man's lung cancer is the result of a 36-year smoking habit rather than alleged asbestos exposure amid varying expert opinions.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia State Bar has filed a formal complaint against a man with family and work ties to a former West Virginia Supreme Court justice and former state Attorney General.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) -- The West Virginia Supreme Court is scheduled Wednesday to hear the appeal of a high-profile $91 million jury award in a nursing home death case.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The chairman of West Virginia's Mass Litigation Panel says the judges have come to act as a single unit over the last 18 years.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the approval of a $93 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over a chemical used in Agent Orange.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) -- A federal appeals court has denied a petition for a rehearing of a case by an Alaskan village claiming that global warming is eroding its shoreline.
RICHMOND, Virg. (Legal Newsline) - On a certified question of law from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Virginia Supreme Court held that a cause of action due to latent mesothelioma accrues "upon the first communication of a diagnosis of an asbestos-related injury or disease by a physician."
RICHMOND, Virg. (Legal Newsline) - The Virginia Supreme Court has reversed and remanded a case in which a jury awarded over $17 million dollars to the estate of a shipyard worker who died from mesothelioma.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Ford Motor Company won a major victory in a products liability lawsuit when the Virginia Supreme Court confirmed the circuit court's order granting a motion in limine that excluded evidence thought critical to the plaintiff's case.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has blocked the Jefferson County Circuit Court from forcing the CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Roger Crandall, to be deposed.
