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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 complaint and account information regarding the individuals who received these particular communications. "F...

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 Respondents included claims for negligence and breach of the party wall agreement," the opinion states. "The ...

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 them missing some of their salaries. “We fought hard for West Virginia state workers’ wages,” Ter...