West Virginia Business Litigation

This blawg covers developments in business and commercial litigation in West Virginia.

Author: Jeffrey V. Mehalic is a solo in Charleston, W.V. who specializes in litigation regarding employee benefit plans and their sponsors, fiduciaries, service providers and insurers.

Blawg Related Categories: Antitrust Law • Intellectual Property Law • Trials & Litigation • Attorney Fees • Evidence • Verdicts & Settlements • States • West Virginia • Solo / Small Firm • Business Law

Recent Posts from West Virginia Business Litigation

Fourth Circuit Holds Insurance Policy Exclusion Applies to Strip-Search Claims
My thanks to Mack Sperling, who writes the North Carolina Business Litigation Report, for letting me know about the Fourth Circuit’s unpublished decision last week in Cornett Management Co., LLC v. Firemen’s Fund Ins. Co.,…
Federal Court Has Discretion to Exercise Supplemental Jurisdiction
You may remember Paul Ratchford, the former president of The Greenbrier, who was terminated in 2007 after less than one year on the job. He filed suit against CSX Corporation, the resort’s then-owner and some…
USDC Opinion Determines Reasonableness of Class Counsel's Attorney Fees
United States District Court Chief Judge Joseph R. Goodwin recently ruled in Jones v. Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 601 F.Supp.2d 756 (S.D.W.Va. 2009), on the class counsel’s motion for attorney’s fees and expenses, and his…
WV Supreme Court Enters Administrative Orders in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company
Apparently, I could go only one day without another post related to the Supreme Court's decision in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company. But the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia yesterday resolved the…
Sixth Circuit Reverses Position on Workplace Retaliation-by-Association
The Supreme Court’s decision in Massey v. A. T. Massey Coal Company has occupied my attention so far this week, but today I want to look at a decision issued earlier this month by the…
Massey CEO Comments on SCOTUS Recusal Decision
There are a few more items I want to mention today about the Supreme Court’s decision in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company. The first is a personal statement released by Don L. Blankenship, the…
Dissents in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company Predict More Challenges to Judges
There has been so much reaction and commentary about the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Company that it is hard to know where to begin. First, I want to…
SCOTUS Holds Due Proces Requires WV Supreme Court Justice's Recusal
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion today in Caperton v. Massey and in a 5-4 decision held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required Supreme Court of Appeals of…
SCOTUS Tightens Pleading Requirements for Plaintiffs
The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009), dealt with a detainee’s claims that he had been discriminated against and treated harshly during his detention. But the Supreme…
Citigroup Bets Executives Will Forgo Litigation Over Suspended Severance Payments
A couple months ago, I wrote about the furor over the bonuses paid to some AIG employees, which resulted in the House of Representatives passing a bill that would tax the bonuses at 90%. Although that…