Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withfraudulently obtaining $94,197.93 of federal abandoned mine land (AML) remediation sub-grant funds while employed by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Elkins also set up a shell limited liability company to receive a portion of the sub-grant award funds and created fraudulent invoi... More...    $0 (12-01-2023 - WV)

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with disclosing tax return information without authorization.

Charles Littlejohn, age 38, of Washington, DC was accused of breaking federal law and betrayed the public’s trust by stealing tax information and disclosing it publicly.

“The unauthorized theft and disclosure of tax return information by gove... More...    $0 (10-12-2023 - wv)

Huntington, West Virginia civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming they violated her First Amendment rights.

Durstein worked as a full-time teacher for Cabell County Schools from November 2001 until her termination on March 6, 2017. During the 2016-2017 school year, Durstein taught World Studies at Huntington High School. She operated a Twitter account vie... More...    $0 (08-23-2023 - WV)

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with raudulently obtaining $94,197.93 of federal abandoned mine land (AML) remediation sub-grant funds while employed by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

From on or about April 2017 until on or about August 7, 2019, Jerry D. Elkins, age 54, of Daniville, West Virginia, assisted ... More...    $0 (06-02-2023 - WV)

Charleston, West Virginia employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Family and Medical Leave Act violation theory.

This case was filed in the Circuit Court of Logan County, 21-C-143, and was removed to federal court by Defendant.


Plaintiff Mark A. Brooks (“Plaintiffâ€�) filed this action, alleging that his employment was unlawfully terminated aft... More...    $0 (05-31-2022 - WV)

Huntington, West Virginia civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, Gregory Adkins, who sued Maxum Petroleum Operating Company on an employment discrimination theory.... More...    $0 (03-16-2021 - WV)

Charleston, West Virginia health care fraud criminal defense lawyer represented Edward Stephen, age 61, who was charged by the United States of America with health care fraud.

“When federal workforce programs are defrauded, it comes at great cost to taxpayers,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. “I appreciate the work of the U.S. Department of Transportation OIG and Office of Perso... More...    $0 (10-24-2020 - WV)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Wisconsin-Based Nonprofit To Pay $1.9 Million To Settle Allegations Of False Claims And Kickbacks On Federal Contracts For Blind Workers

Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc. (IBI) has agreed to pay the United States $1,938,684.09 to resolve allegations that IBI violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act in connection with certain federal ... More...    $1938684 (10-01-2020 - WV)

Charleston, WV - Job discrimination lawyer represented Trista Muncy who sued Williamson Treatment Center, LLC on a civil rights employment discrimination theory.

This case was filed in the Mingo County Circuit Court, 18-C-96, and was removed to federal court by the defendant.
... More...    $0 (11-03-2019 - WV)

Plaintiffs-Appellants sued UTC Fire & Security Americas Corporation, Inc., and Honeywell International, Inc., under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227. Although Plaintiffs did not allege that UTC and Honeywell directly violated the TCPA, they claimed that both companies were vicariously liable for illegal calls made by telemarketers promoting UTC and Honeywell prod... More...    $0 (03-24-2018 - wV)

Charleston, WV - West Virginia Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Pay Employment Taxes

A Fayette County, West Virginia, business owner was sentenced to 15 months in prison for failing to pay over employment taxes.

According to documents and information provided to the court, from 2008 through 2012, Steve Lopez, 68, owned and operated Ready Transport Services (RTS)... More...    $0 (03-15-2018 - WV)

The petitioners, former shareholders of Kay Company (“Kay Co.”) and Kay Co, LLC (“Kay LLC”),1 appeal from two orders2 entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County through which summary judgment was granted to the respondent McGuireWoods, LLP (“McGuireWoods” or “MW”) in connection with claims the petitioners filed against McGuireWoods, their former legal counsel.3 As grounds for their appeal, the... More...    $0 (11-09-2017 - WV)

The petitioner herein and plaintiff below, Robert Matheny,1 Sheriff of Harrison County (“Sheriff Matheny” or “the Sheriff”), appeals from an order entered August 9, 2016, by the Circuit Court of Harrison County. By that order, the circuit court granted mandamus relief to the respondent herein and defendant below, Lieutenant Gregory Scolapio (“Lieutenant Scolapio”), finding that he was entitled to ... More...    $0 (11-09-2017 - WV)

Respondent Dr. Tuan Nguyen (“Physician”) filed a third-party complaint
against Petitioner Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation (the “Hospital”) and
alleged it discriminated and retaliated against him for reporting patient safety concerns;
he alleged violations of the West Virginia Patient Safety Act (the “Act”),1 retaliatory
discharge, and intentional infliction of emotional ... More...    $0 (11-13-2017 - WV)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Charleston pill dealer pleads guilty in Federal court

A Charleston man caught smuggling oxycodone through the mail pleaded guilty today, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kenneth Edward Campbell, 48, entered his guilty plea in federal court to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.

On August 23, 2013, the United States Postal Inspection Service... More...    $0 (02-08-2016 - WV)

Petitioner Laverne Harper, widow of John R. Harper, by Reginald D. Henry, her attorney, appeals the decision of the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Board of Review. West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner, by Mary Rich Malloy, its attorney, filed a timely response. This appeal arises from the Board of Review’s Final Order dated April 16, 2014, in which the Board reversed an October ... More...    $0 (10-21-2015 - WV)

Petitioner Randall Ford, by Robert L. Stultz, his attorney, appeals the decision of the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Board of Review. Consolidation Coal Company/ Morgantown Operations, by Gary W. Nickerson and James W. Heslep, its attorneys, filed a timely response.
This appeal arises from the Board of Review’s Final Order dated September 16, 2014, in which the Board reversed and vac... More...    $0 (10-21-2015 - WV)

Petitioner Hope L. Gresham, by J. Robert Weaver, her attorney, appeals the decision of the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Board of Review. West Virginia State Bar, by Timothy E. Huffman, its attorney, filed a timely response.
This appeal arises from the Board of Review’s Final Order dated October 1, 2014, in which the Board reversed an April 1, 2014, Order of the Workers’ Compensation ... More...    $0 (10-21-2015 - WV)

Petitioner David M. Wasanyi, by counsel Sherman L. Lambert Sr., appeals the Circuit Court of Berkeley County’s July 28, 2014, order granting respondent’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing his counterclaim. Respondent Rite Aid Corporation, by counsel Daniel T. Booth, filed a response. On appeal, petitioner alleges that the circuit court erred in finding there were no material facts in disp... More...    $0 (10-20-2015 - WV)

Appellant Michael L. White was charged with crimes related to the intentional burning of a two-unit duplex that he owned and managed and to his recovery of insurance proceeds from the fire. Following a jury trial, White was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson and mail fraud, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 844(i), 1341 (Count 1); aiding and abetting arson, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 2(a), 844(i) (Count 2); an... More...    $0 (11-17-2014 - WV)

A coal company and its insurer (collectively “Lemarco�) petition this court for review of an award of black-lung benefits to Nancy Helton, the widow of former miner Wayne Helton. Discerning no legal error and finding that substantial evidence supports the Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ�) conclusion, we deny the petition.

I.

Wayne worked as a coal miner for over thirteen y... More...    $0 (03-18-2014 - WV)

Appellants, Roger and Judy Hoschar (collectively “Appellantsâ€�), filed this civil action in the Circuit Court of Mason County, West Virginia, against Appellee, Appalachian Power Company (“APCOâ€�), and Defendant, Industrial Contractors, Inc. (“ICIâ€�), seeking damages for an infectious lung disease called histoplasmosis that Roger Hoschar (“Mr. Hoscharâ€�) allegedly contracted while worki... More...    $0 (01-07-2014 - WV)

Appellant Mary Fox contends that Elk Run Coal Company committed fraud on the court and thereby deprived her husband, coal miner Gary Fox, of nearly a decade of benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act (“BLBAâ€�). The Benefits Review Board (“BRBâ€�) found that Elk Run’s conduct was not sufficiently egregious to meet the high bar for a claim of fraud on the court because it did not amount to... More...    $0 (01-06-2014 - WV)

In this interlocutory appeal of the November 5, 2010, order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, the defendants below — the City 1 of Saint Albans, B.L. Tagayun and A.C. Truitt2 (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Appellantsâ€�) — challenge the trial court’s refusal to grant summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds. The underlying civil complaint filed by David A. Botkins (h... More...    $0 (11-23-2011 - WV)

This case is before the Court upon the appeal of the defendants below Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Norfolk Southern Corporation, James D. Farley, and Charles Paxton (hereinafter “petitionersâ€�). In this malicious prosecution case, the petitioners appeal from the March 24, 2010, final order of the Circuit Court of Mason County, in which the circuit court denied their post-trial motions for ... More...    $0 (11-23-2011 - WV)

Where there is no provision in a written employment agreement, personnel handbook, personnel policy materials or employer documents granting employees payment for unused, accumulated sick leave upon termination from employment, the unused, accumulated sick leave, upon termination from employment, is not a vested, nonforfeitable fringe benefit under the West Virginia Wage Payment and Collection Act... More...    $0 (09-29-2011 - WV)

Jonathan Darby, the petitioner, appeals the April 20, 2010 order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County that reversed the April 9, 2009 decision of the hearing examiner of the West Virginia Public Employees Grievance Board and upheld Mr. Darby’s employment termination with respondent Kanawha County Board of Education. After careful consideration of the pleadings and the record in this case, this... More...    $0 (06-14-2011 - WV)

This matter is before the Court upon an appeal taken by the Appellant Carroll Eugene Humphries from an Order entered December 18, 2009, by the Circuit Court of Putnam County, West Virginia, granting the Appellee Paul S. Detch’s motion to dismiss pursuant to West Virginia Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). The Appellant argues that the circuit court erred: 1) in dismissing the action by determinin... More...    $0 (06-22-2011 - WV)

In the three cases now before the Court, we are asked to examine two areas of the law which – surprisingly – we have never directly and comprehensively addressed. The first area of the law we consider involves Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“the FAAâ€�).1 We are asked to consider its preemptive effect on West Virginia’s nursing home laws. These cases involve arbitration clauses ... More...    $0 (06-29-2011 - WV)

The corporation of Harpers Ferry, appellant/defendant below (hereinafter “the Cityâ€� or City Councilâ€�) appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County denying its motion to alter or amend a judgment. The circuit court’s order denied the City’s request to alter or amend a prior order awarding Ralph Taylor, appellee/plaintiff below (hereinafter “Mr. Taylorâ€�), attorney’s... More...    $0 (05-26-2011 - WV)