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PARKERSBURG – A circuit judge again has certified a case involving a 2017 Parkersburg warehouse fire as a class action. An attorney for the defendant, however, says the issue again will be appealed to the state Supreme Court On June 17, Judge Thomas Bedell issued an order granting class certification in the case Paul Snider, a Parkersburg man, filed against Surniak Holdings of WV LLC in Wood Circuit Court. Bedell, a circuit judge from Harrison County, is hearing the case because the state Supreme Court previously recused all Wood County judges from the case. McLaughlin Surniak once had this and other related cases removed to federal court, but they were remanded back to state court. That’s where the class, which could include more than 50,000 people, was certified once before by Bedell. But Surniak appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, which then sent it back to Bedell for more analysis. ....