Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Decisions 2024
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0380
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Tony Paletta, the petitioner, and Nelson Phillips, III, Nathan Phillips, Robert Nelson Phillips, II, and the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, the respondents. The…
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0433
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-603
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-629
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-722
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-791
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-27
Date: May 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-155
Justia Opinion Summary: The State of West Virginia sought a writ of prohibition to prevent the Circuit Court of Monongalia County from enforcing its order dismissing a six-count indictment against J.L. and D.F., who were charged with crimes…
Date: May 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-155
Date: May 3, 2024
Docket Number: 24-223
Date: May 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0333
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0031
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-618
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-636
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-715
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-764
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-823
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-866
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-868
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-886
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-902
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-951
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 23-17
Date: April 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0503
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves T & C Construction Services and Theodore Miller (collectively, T & C), who operate a rental building in St. Albans, West Virginia. The City of St. Albans inspected the premises after a tenant reported a…
Date: April 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-672
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Rachel Louise Adkins, who was charged with one felony count of driving under the influence causing death, along with four misdemeanor charges. Adkins entered a Kennedy plea in the Circuit Court of…
Date: April 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-43
Date: April 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-43
Date: April 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-43
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves David Duff II, a Kanawha County Deputy Sheriff, who injured his back while on duty. He applied for workers' compensation benefits and was awarded a 13% Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) award. The…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 22-685
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant, Kristen Nicole Wetzel, was convicted of unlawful taking of a vehicle, also known as "joyriding," under West Virginia Code § 17-8-4(a). As part of a plea agreement, she was sentenced to six months of…
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-142
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-149
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-153
Date: April 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-759
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around the defendant, Kyle Slaughter, who was arrested and charged in two separate counties in West Virginia. In Fayette County, he was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase and…
Date: April 11, 2024
Docket Numbers: 22-609, 22-610
Justia Opinion Summary: Two campus police officers at Shepherd University, Jay Longerbeam and Donald Buracker, were terminated due to alleged "misconduct" and "unprofessionalism" during two incidents in 2018 and 2019. The officers claimed that…
Date: April 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-928
Date: March 26, 2024
Docket Number: 22-853
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia granted a writ of prohibition to defendant Denita D. Berg, preventing the Circuit Court of Grant County from enforcing orders to sell personal property before determining its…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 22-916
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0145
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0373
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0376
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0420
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-573
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-595
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-617
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-664
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-700
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-728
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-737
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-761
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-776
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-809
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-903
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Numbers: 23-260, 23-266, 23-271
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-862
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0491
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia recently ruled on a case involving the nonprofit organization Tax Analysts and Matthew Irby, the West Virginia State Tax Commissioner. Tax Analysts requested copies of field…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-625
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-625
Justia Opinion Summary: In West Virginia, a woman sued the City of Logan after she tripped over a loop of cable wire on a sidewalk, which she alleged the city negligently maintained. The cable wire and post were owned by the First Baptist…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-691
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the Board of Education of the County of Cabell challenged two state laws that required the Board to include funding for the Cabell County Public Library…
Date: March 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-284
Date: March 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-4
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0389
Justia Opinion Summary: In a suit involving the West Virginia Department of Human Services (the Department), the plaintiff, A.R., alleged that her injuries stemmed from the Department's negligence, specifically its failure to follow proper…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Numbers: 22-831, 22-867
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 22-621
Justia Opinion Summary: In the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the court was asked to decide whether the attempted conveyances of interests in a testamentary trust that included a spendthrift provision were void ab initio (void from…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0177
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0114
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0167
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0274
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0344
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-565
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-581
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-589
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-607
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-704
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-725
Date: February 13, 2024
Docket Number: 22-688
Date: February 13, 2024
Docket Number: 23-8
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-800
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0498
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0391
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1016
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question arose from a multi-million-dollar loss suffered by Westlake Chemical Corporation and Axiall Corporation (the respondents) at their chlorine manufacturing plant in Natrium, West Virginia. The loss…
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0029
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0132
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0208
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0241
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0242
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0258
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0259
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0264
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0265
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0286
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0298
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0299
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0315
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0358
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0359
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0360
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0374
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0377
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0394
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0402
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0403
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0412
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0443
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0451
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0460
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0466
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0477
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0486
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0500
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0506
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0513
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-593
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-626
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-634
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-646
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-665
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-667
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-682
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-691
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-693
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-711
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-738
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-749
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-774
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-790
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-794
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-808
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-899
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