Tomblin WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, in an amicus brief filed Wednesday, is lending his support to Mingo Logan Coal Co. in its ongoing legal battle against the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A settlement announced Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency requires three companies to pay about $29.8 million in cleanup costs for a Superfund site.
Chief Justice Menis Ketchum CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals says the state's Division of Labor was "not clearly wrong" in determining that work done by an out-of-state company on a new state museum was subject to West Virginia's Prevailing Wage Act.
Ketchum CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in a full opinion filed this week, elaborated on its decision in February to have a state lawmaker's election opponent removed from the May primary ballot.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney is calling for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and state Attorney General Darrell McGraw to join a lawsuit against the Obama administration's contraception rule.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw said Tuesday his office has reached a $13.5 million settlement with Capital One over the bank's past credit card practices.
Stuart CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Republican Party, anticipating future litigation, on Friday provided written notice to various state offices asking that all documents related to redistricting be preserved.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced on Tuesday that his office has filed a lawsuit against a Virginia title lender to enforce a subpoena.
McGraw RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Calling some of its arguments "weak" and "absurd," West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has responded to a group of pharmacies that claims his lawsuit against it is a class action.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw and the state Legislature are on the same page when it comes to how to spend part of a $22.5 million settlement with Eli Lilly & Co.
Wells CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Advertisements attacking W.Va. Sen. Erik Wells' voting record on whistleblower lawsuits are upsetting him and the state Chamber of Commerce.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The federal government was right to withhold more than $400,000 from the state of West Virginia because of one of state Attorney General Darrell McGraw's settlements, a federal judge has ruled.
Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Another settlement has been announced in the final round of Zyprexa lawsuits brought by state attorneys general.
McGraw NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys for the State of West Virginia may not depose officials from Eli Lilly & Co. about a $1.4 billion federal plea agreement, a federal judge recently decided.
McGraw NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The State of West Virginia has agreed to drop its request for civil penalties for any acts committed before 2002 by Eli Lilly & Co. regarding its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa.
McGraw NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Because the State of West Virginia is no longer seeking recovery for any actual damage done to its health care programs, much of its remaining claim must be dropped, attorneys for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. are arguing.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Legal Newsline) - Nearly 300 West Virginia consumers received a collection letter from Riddle & Associates, threatening to add attorneys fees and collection costs unless their DirecTV accounts were promptly paid in full.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W. Va. - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw will not relent in his civil suit against the former director of a federally and state-funded senior center recently acquitted of a federal charge that he illegally cashed in more than $31,000 in sick leave.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W. Va. - It wasn't just West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw's idea to spend $10 million from a 2004 settlement the way it was spent, his office recently said.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W. Va. - So how can the State of West Virginia recover from having $4.1 million in Medicaid funds withheld by the federal government?