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ATRA's Joyce touts effectiveness of 'Judicial Hellholes' program
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Many elected officials are oblivious to the restrictions on health care access and the overall damage to the economy caused by rampant abuse of the legal system, Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, told the Washington Legal Foundation in a recent interview.
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Interest rate on judgments, decrees set at 4 percent for 2021
CHARLESTON – The Administrative Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has set the interest rate at 4 percent for judgments and decrees entered during the 2021 calendar year.
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AFP-WV prioritizes education reform in 2021 legislative agenda
CHARLESTON — Americans for Prosperity - West Virginia has released its 2021 Legislative Agenda that it hopes will pave the way for more freedom for West Virginians.
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West Virginia again lands on Watch List of annual Judicial Hellholes report
WASHINGTON – West Virginia again finds itself on the American Tort Reform Foundation’s annual Judicial Hellholes Watch List.
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Justice, Morrisey still sparring over revised mask mandate authority
CHARLESTON – It’s Round Two in the war of words between West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.
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Justices side with Diocese on Consumer Credit and Protection Act question; Workman dissents
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court says the deceptive practices provisions of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act do not apply to educational and recreational services offered by a religious institution.
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Attorney seeks to keep Justice, school board and DHHR from enforcing school re-entry plan
CHARLESTON – A Charleston attorney has filed a petition to prohibit Gov Jim Justice, the state Board of Education and the state Department of Health and Human Resources from enforcing portions of the West Virginia School Re-entry Metrics and Protocols program.
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Warner appeals after federal judge says SOS needs new way to place candidates on ballot
HUNTINGTON – A federal judge says West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office has to figure out a new way to determine how candidates are placed on the ballot.
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Delegate wants special session for bill to protect businesses, schools, churches from COVID lawsuits
CHARLESTON – A member of the House of Delegates is pushing for legislation that would protect teachers, school systems, churches and businesses from frivolous lawsuits related to COVID-19.
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Senate Democrats push link between coronavirus and favored political cause
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Democrats in the U.S. Senate are attempting to link one of their pet projects to the COVID-19 pandemic in the days leading to a vote on a liability-expanding measure they tried to force through last year and failed.
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Carmichael says legislation to protect essential businesses, workers being drafted
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael says legislation is being drafted to ensure liability protections to protect small business owners and workers, especially health care workers who are protecting our state’s citizens amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
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West Virginia Supreme Court upholds state's right-to-work law
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has ruled the state’s right-to-work law is valid, voiding a circuit court ruling that had declared it unconstitutional.
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Democrats pressed to back coronavirus legislation that protects mask-makers from lawsuits
House Democrats have agreed this week to extend some liability protections to manufacturers of masks that can protect health professionals from the coronavirus, Legal Newsline has learned.
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Lawmakers in Oklahoma, West Virginia the latest to call for rejection of ALI's insurance Restatement
PHILADELPHIA – Oklahoma and West Virginia can be added to the growing list of states seeking to formally reject the American Law Institute’s controversial Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance - a project that some see as evidence of an ideological shift at the organization that amounts to a power-trip.
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Organization wants lawmakers to continue working on intermediate court after bill dies in House
CHARLESTON —Americans for Prosperity-West Virginia is disappointed that lawmakers decided to vote against legislation that would have created an intermediate appellate court in the state.
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House kills intermediate appellate court bill with 56-44 vote
CHARLESTON – The House of Delegates narrowly defeated the bill that would have created an intermediate court of appeals.
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House advances intermediate court bill to third reading
CHARLESTON — Several amendments were adopted during the House of Delegates' debate on the bill creating an intermediate appellate court before it was advanced to third reading.
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AFP-WV supports intermediate court bill
CHARLESTON — Americans for Prosperity-West Virginia supports a bill that would establish an intermediate court.
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House Finance Committee votes to send intermediate court bill to full House
CHARLESTON — The House Finance Committee voted on Monday to favorably report Senate Bill 275 to the House floor to be discussed.
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House Judiciary holds public hearing about intermediate appellate court bill
CHARLESTON – State Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Trump feels so strongly about the creation of an intermediate appellate court that he took time to go to a House of Delegates public hearing to share his thoughts.