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Friends and fellow education activists on Sunday mourned Dirk Tillotson, an equity...

West Virginia Supreme Court justices recognize Cabell County Magistrate Judge Michael J. Woelfel for his outstanding service before he is sworn in as the new Cabell County Circuit Court clerk on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at the Cabell County Courthouse in downtown Huntington. Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court exceeded its powers when it granted a motion to compel discovery. Logan Circuit Court granted a motion to compel discovery, ordering Health Care Alliance Inc. and HCFS Health Care Financial Services to provide the names and addresses of all individuals with a West Virginia billing address who received communications from Health Care Financial Services between June 2016 and the time Kelsey Starr filed her complain...

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals affirmed a circuit court judgment involving a party wall agreement between party owners. This appeal concerns a party wall agreement between adjoining property owners in Beckley — Sarah L. Bitchfield, who owns a commercial building that shares a party wall with the adjacent property owned or formerly owned by  Zen’s Development LLC, Uptown Properties LLC  and Kenneth McBride Jr. "Petitioner’s lawsuit against these three Responden...

CHARLESTON — The state Supreme Court has ruled a senior status circuit judge was correct in granting summary judgment to the state by rejecting an appeal from five state employees who claimed they were shortchanged by a payroll cycle change. On April 20, the justices affirmed the ruling made last year by Judge Thomas Evans, who sided with the state and said the employees are not owed any pay. The employees had argued that the switch of pay cycles from twice a month to every two weeks left the...

Senate Republicans Do About-Face On Food Tax By April 2, 2021 - 12:46 am Senate Republicans may hear the voice of former House Speaker Tim Armstead echoing in the halls of the Capitol. The one-time Republican leader and now state Supreme Court Justice was a persistent advocate for eliminating the sales tax on food. He called the tax on groceries “immoral.” Republicans were in the minority during most of Armstead’s tenure, so it took the majority Democrats to finally get behind the movem...

Justice sees flaws in Senate tax plan, and he wishes somebody had looped him in By Gov. Jim Justice Gov. Jim Justice says he likes some aspects of a new Senate tax plan and really dislikes several others: fewer business groups “pulling the rope,” the loss of rebate checks for lower-income residents and reinstitution of the food tax. And the governor wishes someone had taken just a couple minutes to call him about the plan. “I’m disappointed beyond belief that nobody ever consulted wit...

CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court will decide whether to remand a case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay. The petition was heard March 16. The petitioners – Lisa Wilkinson, Heather Morris, Kathryn A. Bradley, Pamela Stumpf and Lula V. Dickerson – are five state employees. But the case could affect up to 40,000 public employees. The respondents are Gov. Jim Justice, Auditor John B. McCuskey, former Treas...

The petition is scheduled to be heard by the justices on March 16. The petitioners – Lisa Wilkinson, Heather Morris, Kathryn A. Bradley, Pamela Stumpf and Lula V. Dickerson – are five state employees. But the case could affect up to 40,000 public employees. The respondents are Gov. Jim Justice, Auditor John B. McCuskey, former Treasurer John Perdue, Secretary of State Mac Warner, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins. “We think it’s respons...

West Virginia News Jan 24, 2021 FILE - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address in the House Chambers at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Nursing home visits are being allowed again in West Virginia as the state focuses on coronavirus outbreaks in the general populations of individual counties without clamping down on areas without them. Justice warned Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, that the visits could end quickly in some places if...