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Queen of the hellhole
2/4/2010 5:28 PM

Unlike most other states, West Virginia lacks an intermediate appellate court -- and State Supreme Court Chief Justice Robin wants to keep it that way. Her opinion is no doubt shared by attorneys who've prospered in our plaintiff-friendly lower courts, including her husband Scott Siegel.

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THEIR VIEW: West Virginians deserve right of appeal
2/4/2010 10:48 AM
CHARLESTON -- During his recent State-of-the-State address, Gov. Joe Manchin called for establishment of a right of appeal in West Virginia. West Virginia is the only state that does not provide a right of appeal from a final judgment in a lower court in either civil or criminal cases. This significantly tarnishes the state's reputation in terms of its legal and judicial climate.

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Get the money from McGraw!
1/29/2010 4:34 PM
As an example of brazen hypocrisy, Abraham Lincoln cited the man who murdered both his parents and then asked for clemency because he was an orphan.
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THEIR VIEW: There are no shortcuts to meaningful judicial reform
1/27/2010 1:00 PM
CHARLESTON -- While West Virginia's leaders have spent a lot of time talking about reforming our state courts, we seem to keep spinning our wheels in the mud. Case in point is our most recent judicial reform discussion.

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THEIR VIEW: New lower cost, consensus course needed for health care reform
1/27/2010 1:00 PM
CHARLESTON -- The recent election of a Republican Senator in Massachusetts to fill the seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy is a major change and one that will have a direct influence on the deliberations related to national health care reform.

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The best judges taxpayer money can buy
1/22/2010 12:00 PM
Whether judges should be appointed or elected is a question about which reasonable people can disagree. But the public financing of elections - for judgeships or any other position - is an option we should deplore.
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THEIR VIEW: Lawsuit abuse obstructs job creation
1/21/2010 9:38 AM
WASHINGTON -- Leave it to the plaintiffs' trial lawyers to add insult to injury. While American businesses and families spent 2009 coping with the effects of a severe recession, the plaintiffs' bar was hard at work bringing a whole new round of outrageous lawsuits on behalf of clients hoping to get rich quick by winning the litigation lottery.

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THEIR VIEW: A script even Hollywood couldn't write
1/20/2010 8:00 PM
CHARLESTON -- In the movies, when the jury hands down an unjust verdict, the scrappy underdog lawyer - isn't it always either Henry Fonda or Al Pacino? - exclaims with steely resolve: "We're gonna take it all the way to the Supreme Court!"

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Elvis, O.J., and Bigfoot abducted by aliens!
1/15/2010 3:33 PM
"Who reads this junk?" -- people ask about tabloid newspapers -- while reading them.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Health care reform bill shocks construction industry
1/14/2010 12:11 PM
Dear Editor, An eleventh hour backroom deal in the U.S. Senate is sending shock waves through America's construction industry, and could cost thousands of jobs at a time when job creation should be the first priority for the federal government; not new government mandates that kill jobs and stifle small construction firms that are struggling to survive during this economic downturn.

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Are you my defendant?
1/8/2010 3:00 PM
"Are You My Mother" is the title of P.D. Eastman's popular children's book -- and the question asked repeatedly by its main character, a baby bird whose mother is absent at the moment of his hatching.
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