Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Decisions 2011
Date: December 20, 2011
Docket Number: 101503
Date: December 16, 2011
Docket Number: 101247
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Date: December 7, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0097
Date: December 7, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0165
Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
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Date: December 2, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0773
Date: December 2, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0844
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 101179
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 101179
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Rhonda Stewart was convicted for the first degree murder of her husband. At trial, the circuit court prohibited Defendant from presenting evidence that she had been battered and abused by her husband during…
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0048
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0049
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0060
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0159
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0253
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0546
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0586
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0598
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0601
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0678
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0783
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0991
Date: November 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-1301
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101413
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101413
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101499
Justia Opinion Summary: Employee of a railway company was accused by his Employer of stealing rail. After it was discovered that Employee was involved in the removal and sale of the rail, Employee's employment was terminated. An arbitration…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101556
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101559
Justia Opinion Summary: Grandmother filed a petition for permanent guardianship of Child, who was over fourteen years old and had nominated his Grandmother to be his guardian. Child's Mother contested the guardianship. The family court denied…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101596
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee was allegedly hit in the head by a law enforcement officer during a confrontation. Appellee filed a civil complaint against the city and the two officers involved in the incident (Appellants), alleging that his…
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0107
Date: November 23, 2011
Docket Number: 35680
Date: November 22, 2011
Docket Number: 101526
Date: November 21, 2011
Docket Number: 100916
Justia Opinion Summary: The assessor and sheriff of Mingo County sought to remove Gregory Smith from his position as commissioner on the Mingo County Commission. A three-judge court empaneled by the Supreme Court denied the petition for removal…
Date: November 21, 2011
Docket Number: 101605
Date: November 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0770
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a constructor, was sued by several people living in new homes built by Petitioner (Residents). Residents claimed they were injured by radon gas leaking into their homes because of improper construction by…
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101379
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101379
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a dispute regarding developed property. Developer filed a complaint alleging that the project's general contractor (Contractor) and an engineering firm (Firm) had negligently provided recommendations…
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101414
Justia Opinion Summary: Employee submitted a claim for workers' compensation under Employer's policy with Insurer, which claim was paid in full. Employee also filed a deliberate intent lawsuit against Employer. After assuming the attorney's…
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101420
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, who had a diagnosis of severe autism, had been participating in the federal Mentally Retarded / Developmentally Delayed Home and Community-Based Waiver Program, which provided in-home and community-based…
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101503
Justia Opinion Summary: The Racing Commission suspended certain jockeys' occupational permits for thirty days and imposed fines for the jockeys' failure to declare an overweight amount. Afterwards, PNGI Charles Town Gaming (PNGI), a non-party…
Date: November 18, 2011
Docket Number: 101540
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, who had a diagnosis of autism with obsessive compulsive disorder traits and hyperactive traits, had participated for several years in the federal Mentally Retarded / Developmentally Delayed Home and…
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101141
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101152
Date: November 17, 2011
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Date: November 17, 2011
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Date: November 17, 2011
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Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101357
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101457
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101556
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101627
Justia Opinion Summary: Taxpayer, related corporations that operated a vertically-integrated poultry production business, sought an exemption from ad valorem taxes on five industrial personal property tax returns it filed with the State Tax…
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101632
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners were fifteen employees of the county Board of Education, who filed a grievance regarding changes made to the subsequent year's extracurricular coaching contracts, claiming they were entitled to receive notice…
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0081
Justia Opinion Summary: After Appellee was arrested for DUI, the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revoked Appellee's driver's license for two years. Appellee filed a request for an administrative hearing, which was conducted on May 6, 2008. By…
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 35462
Date: November 17, 2011
Docket Number: 35523
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: 101366
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: 101579
Date: November 16, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0079
Justia Opinion Summary: First National Keystone Bank retained an independent accounting firm to audit its records at a time that members of the bank's management were fraudulently concealing the bank's financial condition. The accounting firm…
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 10-4019
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 10-4020
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 101177
Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0045
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0134
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0140
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0203
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0203
Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
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Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0321
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0409
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0499
Date: November 15, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0756
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101165
Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
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Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101284
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101330
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101472
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101486
Justia Opinion Summary: This matter involved two actions consolidated by the circuit court for appeal purposes concerning the application of the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act (WPCA). Appellants, two employees whose positions…
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101510
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101530
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101578
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 101581
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0166
Justia Opinion Summary: Craig Griffith, state tax commissioner, appealed from an order entered by a circuit court that reversed an earlier order of the Office of Tax Appeals and found that Frontier West Virginia was entitled to a refund of its…
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0243
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0436
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0591
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0740
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0742
Date: November 10, 2011
Docket Number: 11-1035
Justia Opinion Summary: After finding that the County Commission of Greenbrier County acted arbitrarily and capriciously by reducing the budget of the Sheriff of the County, the trial court directed the Commission to, among other things,…
Date: November 9, 2011
Docket Number: 101527
Justia Opinion Summary: The executor of the estates of a family who were killed in an accident filed a wrongful death action against an individual and trucking company. The trucking company was bankrupt, but insurance coverage for the accident…
Date: November 8, 2011
Docket Number: 101259
Date: November 8, 2011
Docket Number: 101260
Date: November 8, 2011
Docket Number: 101264
Date: November 8, 2011
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Date: November 8, 2011
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Date: November 8, 2011
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Date: November 8, 2011
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Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: 101023
Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: 101041
Date: November 2, 2011
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Date: November 2, 2011
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Date: November 2, 2011
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Date: November 2, 2011
Docket Number: 101140
Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 100948
Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 100949
Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 100950
Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 100961
Date: October 28, 2011
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Date: October 28, 2011
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Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 100972
Date: October 28, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0044
Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: 101121
Date: October 26, 2011
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Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: 101131
Date: October 26, 2011
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Date: October 26, 2011
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Date: October 26, 2011
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Date: October 26, 2011
Docket Number: 101135
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 101625
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0359
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0407
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0412
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0524
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0554
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0710
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0754
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0861
Date: October 25, 2011
Docket Number: 35513
Date: October 24, 2011
Docket Number: 35763
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 101590
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0306
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0314
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0388
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0390
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0406
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0437
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0438
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0496
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0557
Date: October 21, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0600
Date: October 21, 2011
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Date: October 11, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0172
Date: October 11, 2011
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Date: October 11, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0301
Date: October 11, 2011
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Date: October 11, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0421
Date: October 11, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0435
Date: October 11, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0498
Date: October 11, 2011
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Date: October 5, 2011
Docket Number: 101476
Date: September 29, 2011
Docket Number: 101285
Date: September 29, 2011
Docket Number: 101367
Date: September 29, 2011
Docket Number: 101406
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Diana Mey filed a class action complaint alleging that Defendants, several companies, violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by leaving an automated voicemail message at her residence in response…
Date: September 29, 2011
Docket Number: 101476
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, several jail employees, lost their jobs after their positions were eliminated upon the closing of the Cabell County Jail. Plaintiffs subsequently filed a complaint against the County under the West Virginia…
Date: September 26, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0364
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 091823
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Numbers: 101272, 101345
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101327
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101378
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101403
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 101419
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0426
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0463
Date: September 23, 2011
Docket Number: 35699
Date: September 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35763
Date: September 13, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0170
Date: September 13, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0334
Date: September 13, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0419
Date: September 13, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0474
Date: September 9, 2011
Docket Number: 35695
Date: August 18, 2011
Docket Number: 35529
Date: July 22, 2011
Docket Number: 101151
Date: July 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35738
Date: July 21, 2011
Docket Number: 35543
Date: June 29, 2011
Docket Number: 35494 35635 35546
Justia Opinion Summary: In three cases consolidated for review, the facts were similar. A person was admitted to a nursing home, and a family member signed an admission agreement containing an arbitration clause. After the person died, a family…
Date: June 23, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0392 11-0440
Justia Opinion Summary: In two consolidated original jurisdiction actions, petitioners Mylan, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Mylan Technologies, Inc. sought writs of prohibition in two actions pending in the circuit court of Kanawha…
Date: June 23, 2011
Docket Number: 35703
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Charter Communications and appellee Community Antenna, a smaller company, were competing cable services providers. For over a decade the parties had been litigating the issue of whether Charter was offering…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0505
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Jefferson Utilities, Inc. (JUI), a privately-held public utility authorized to provide water service to several areas of Jefferson County, filed a request with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35533
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Elizabeth Thornton was sentenced in circuit court to three to fifteen years in the state penitentiary for her conviction of child neglect resulting in death. Appellant appealed, arguing that (1) the state…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35543
Justia Opinion Summary: In a medical professional liability action, the jury returned a verdict in favor of appellants James and Debbie MacDonald, which included an award of $1,500,000 for noneconomic loss. In accordance with W. Va. Code…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35649
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Carroll Humphries, a convicted felon, filed a writ of habeas corpus with the Supreme Court after his conviction. The Court reversed and remanded the case due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Upon remand,…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35691
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant David Kaufman was convicted of first degree murder in the circuit court. On appeal, appellant argued that the trial court improperly admitted into evidence the victim's diary and certain statements by the…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35742
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2003, the Division of Highways (DOH) let out a public highway construction contract to Nicewonder Contracting. The Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation (ACT) filed a declaratory judgment action against the DOH…
Date: June 22, 2011
Docket Number: 35742
Date: June 21, 2011
Docket Number: 35760
Justia Opinion Summary: When appellant Tevya W. (mother) and appellee Elias V. (father) divorced in 2003, an approved shared parenting plan provided that their son Elias was to reside primarily with his mother. In 2005, the family court…
Date: June 17, 2011
Docket Number: 101151
Justia Opinion Summary: Elgene Phillips was driving his truck when the truck hydroplaned, ran off the road, and rolled over. Phillips died as a result of the accident. As administratrix of the decedent's estate, petitioner Shelia Haynes filed a…
Date: June 17, 2011
Docket Number: 35702
Date: June 16, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0015
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner power companies sought a writ of prohibition in connection with a ruling of the circuit court denying petitioners' motion to dismiss a breach of contract complaint filed against them by respondents, Shell…
Date: June 16, 2011
Docket Number: 35710
Justia Opinion Summary: Randy Mace, as personal representative of the estate of Kathy Mace, appealed from an order of the circuit court dismissing his wrongful death lawsuit on the basis of forum non conveniens. Applying the forum non…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 101219
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathan Darby, who was employed by Kanawha County Board of Education (BOE) as a school bus driver, was terminated when the BOE concluded that Darby had violated the BOE's sexual harassment policy. Darby appealed his…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0300
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, the circuit court terminated the custodial and visitation rights of a mother to her four children but did not terminate her parental rights to the children. The Department of Health and Human Resources and the…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35678
Justia Opinion Summary: Janet Hornbeck appealed an order of the circuit court, arguing that the court erred by affirming the family court's ruling that the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement (BCSE) method of distributing child support…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35702
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs William and Connie Huston sought to enforce the terms of a global class action settlement agreement in the circuit court when defendants Mercedes-Benz and Smith Motor Cars allegedly refused to repair the…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35709
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, a professional debt collector began aggressively attempting to collect a deficiency balance Linda Barr allegedly owed to a bank on a motorcycle loan. According to Barr, the debt collector, among other tactics,…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35750 & 51
Justia Opinion Summary: When he was less than two years old, Hunter H. was placed with foster parents after the Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) discovered his parents were using crack cocaine. After residing with the foster…
Date: June 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35761
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants William and Denise Huggins filed a lawsuit against appellees sewer board, city, and mayor, alleging that a violation of the Workers' Compensation Act had occurred when Huggins' health insurance was terminated…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 101150
Justia Opinion Summary: The West Virginia Medical Imaging & Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners appealed an order of the circuit court. In the order, the court reversed the Board's decision to suspend Appellee Kenneth Harrison's…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 101438
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Harpers Ferry appealed a circuit court order in favor of Appellee Ralph Taylor. Mr. Taylor asked the City for permission to create a path along a street so that a truck he used could access his property. At the…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 35558
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Family Protection Services Board, its secretary/treasurer, and several of its members all appealed a grant of summary judgment in favor of Men & Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD). The Board is a public body…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 35646
Justia Opinion Summary: The Clerk of the McDowell County Commission appealed an order of the Circuit Court of McDowell County pertaining to mandamus proceedings. The Commission was directed to reimburse the attorney fees of A. Ray Bailey who…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 35672
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Stanley Myers appealed an order of the circuit court that determined he was a sexually violent predator. On appeal to the Supreme Court, Defendant asserted that the trial court failed to make a statutory…
Date: May 26, 2011
Docket Number: 35743 & 44
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, a petition for abuse and neglect was filed in circuit court regarding N.A, I.A, C.P. and M.P. The petition was filed against the children's biological mother and their maternal grandparents, all of whom were…
Date: May 17, 2011
Docket Number: 35739
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-Appellant Anthony Juntilla appealed his convictions of first degree murder, sexual assault and conspiracy. Defendant was accused of the assault, beating and stabbing death of his girlfriend’s one-year-old…
Date: May 16, 2011
Docket Number: 11-0187
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner The Galloway Group (Galloway) is a partnership of lawyers with an office in West Virginia. Galloway entered into an agreement with Respondents Fredeking & Fredeking Law Offices, LC (Fredeking) wherein the…
Date: May 13, 2011
Docket Number: 35673
Justia Opinion Summary: Commissioner Joe E. Miller, on behalf of the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles, appealed an order by the circuit court that reversed his final order that revoked Petitioner Edward Sims’s driver’s license. Mr. Sims…
Date: May 4, 2011
Docket Number: 35633
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Mickey Justice and Appellee Dawn Palmer (now Lacy) had a child out of wedlock. The baby was born prematurely, and as a result, suffered from neurological and other health problems that were characterized as…
Date: May 3, 2011
Docket Number: 35736 35737
Justia Opinion Summary: Two cases were consolidated by the Supreme Court. In each of the underlying cases, the Petitioners sought relief in the form of writs of mandamus and prohibition. The Supreme Court found that the financial affidavits…
Date: May 3, 2011
Docket Numbers: 35736, 35737
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35528
Justia Opinion Summary: A parcel of land in Tyler County was split in ninths and bequeathed to the heirs of Robert Amos. Plaintiff and Heir Barbara Renner began to purchase the other heirs’ one-ninths interests. In 2000, Ms. Renner owned…
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35528
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35557 35561 35762
Justia Opinion Summary: Three cases were consolidated for appeal. All cases challenged the constitutionality of West Virginia Code 62-12-26, which provides for a period of extended supervision after the release of certain sex offenders from…
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35593
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Farouk Abadir, Hosny Gabriel, Ricardo Ramos, Alfredo Rivas and Michael Vega sued their former attorney Mark Dellinger and his law firm Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, LLP because Mr. Dellinger settled a case…
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35734
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner The Lincoln Journal, Inc. sought a writ of prohibition against the Honorable Jane Hustead, to prevent an order to compel the revelation of alleged confidential and First Amendment privileged news sources and…
Date: May 2, 2011
Docket Number: 35734
Date: April 28, 2011
Docket Number: 35721
Date: April 14, 2011
Docket Number: 35698
Date: April 1, 2011
Docket Number: 35550
Date: April 1, 2011
Docket Number: 35738
Date: April 1, 2011
Docket Number: 35738
Date: March 10, 2011
Docket Number: 35627
Date: March 10, 2011
Docket Number: 35650
Date: March 1, 2011
Docket Number: 35757
Date: February 24, 2011
Docket Number: 10-4001
Date: February 17, 2011
Docket Number: 35632
Date: February 16, 2011
Docket Number: 35632
Date: February 11, 2011
Docket Number: 35713
Date: January 27, 2011
Docket Number: 35701
Date: January 18, 2011
Docket Numbers: 10-4004, 101494
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