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Chief Justice Brent Benjamin expressed concerns about a majority's ruling earlier this year in the Kanawha County public library funding case. More>>
So far, the court has issued 672 decisions but there are more to come.
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A person's right to counsel is protected if they assert this right in an arraignment hearing, even if the person waives this right in a police-initiated interrogation after such a hearing. More>>
BECKLEY, WV (AP) — A former Massey Energy executive who is cooperating with the criminal investigation into the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when she sentences him Aug. 1. More>>
A Martinsburg woman is suing a Maryland museum after she says the then-director publicly discredited a photo she believes is of Abraham Lincoln. More>>
Justices annulled the law license of a New Martinsville attorney and former state Supreme Court candidate after he filed a false mental hygiene complaint against a Wetzel County businessman. More>>
An engineering company was not a law firm's client and thus will not receive one-third of the firm's recovery. More>>
The West Virginia Attorney General has sent letters to two clinics, seeking to assess abortion regulations in the state. More>>
The State Highway Patrol in Ohio says the project will also involve the Kentucky State Police, Indiana State Police, Pennsylvania State Police and the West Virginia State Police. More>>
After a $90.5 million verdict was appealed to the state Supreme Court in a case where a family alleged a nursing home's neglect. More>>
A landowner's language was not ambiguous when conveying "surface" rights in an early 1900s deed, West Virginia Supreme Court justices recently ruled. More>>
The WV DHHR was not responsible for the death of a man who choked on his food and died because of found deficiencies within the facility he was staying in. More>>
Five months in and nearly 600 issued opinions later, one thing is certain — West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry loves his job. More>>
A former masseur's massage license suspension recently was affirmed by West Virginia Supreme Court justices, because of allegations of sexual misconduct involving one of his clients.
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Fairmont General Hospital, not the city or the council, has the authority to appoint its board members, West Virginia Supreme Court justices recently affirmed. More>>
FAIRMONT, WV (AP) — Authorities say no charges will be filed in the rescue of a dog that was swept over waterfalls at Valley Falls State Park. More>>
When Itai Gravely walked out of the Women's Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston, the head of a fetus was still inside her uterus, according to a lawsuit filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court on June 7. More>>
FAIRMONT, WV (AP) — The superintendent of Valley Falls State Park will decide over the next few days whether to file charges against a couple whose dog was swept over the waterfalls and two fishermen who violated a swimming ban when they jumped in to rescue it. More>>
CHARLESTON, WV (AP) — West Virginia is joining a federal and state initiative to combat deceptive travel promoters and timeshare resellers. More>>
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel and the West Virginia Lawyer Disciplinary Board have jurisdiction to prosecute alleged state code violations against a patent lawyer. More>>
The West Virginia attorney general has the authority to appoint special assistant attorneys general, the West Virginia Supreme Court recently decided.
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photo courtesy of the West Virginia Supreme Court Rogers appeared before the state's highest court June 4, in a lawyer disciplinary action seeking to annul his law license. More>>
MOUNDSVILLE, WV (AP) — A Marshall County man was arrested on federal charges of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and the president's family in a letter filled with profanity and racial slurs. More>>
Justices will take up a lawyer disciplinary case next week that seeks to annul the law license of a New Martinsville attorney who ran for the state's highest court in last year's election. More>>
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., honored seven U.S. Marshals who took part in a 2011 raid that killed one officer with the Congressional Badge of Bravery. More>>
Steven McGowan is the first West Virginian to receive the Silver Buffalo award. More>>
According to a survey from lawyers.com, 64 percent of parents would love to raise young lawyers. More>>
Officials in a Fayette County town did not violate federal code when they refused the payment of a $150 fine entirely in change, West Virginia Supreme Court justices recently affirmed. More>>
Environmentalists are saying three reclaimed mountaintop removal mining sites are still polluting West Virginia waterways, and they're suing the current landowners to stop it. More>>
The West Virginia Crime Compensation fund does not have to reimburse unpaid student loans owed by a student who was fatally shot because the loans were used for semesters before his death. More>>
Inmates at West Virginia's minimum- and medium-security prisons soon will sow seeds and tend plants as part of an initiative to grow produce for the state's largest food bank. More>>
A federal judge in the northern district of West Virginia has withdrawn her order certifying a question to the state Supreme Court in a case dealing with horizontal wells.
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