The Supreme Court of Appeals refused to seat Joseph A. de Soto or force a Democratic replacement, holding it could not undo the Republican appointee now in the seat.
The Supreme Court of Appeals refused to overrule a 1988 precedent and ordered the secretary of state to publish a school-bus policy filed without legislative review.
A divided court held that a wrong-way crash victim's estate can claim underinsured motorist benefits based on the at-fault driver's own car, which sat at his home.
The court held that a contractor's indemnity promises to a chemical plant are ambiguous as to injuries the contractor and its president suffered in a 2016 chlorine release through no fault of the contractor.
The state's top court held that state utility regulators could void a $130,000 factoring deal even after a bankruptcy judge had upheld the lender's claim.
West Virginia's top court held that a doctor seeking the $500,000 trauma-center damages cap must prove every fact it requires, and reinstated a paralyzed patient's judgment.
West Virginia's top court held that PHH Mortgage employees in India and the Philippines who handled a disputed cure payment can be deposed on notice alone.
The Supreme Court of Appeals held that fraud claims by 33 breakaway congregations against their annual conference belong to church authorities, not a Mercer County jury.
The state's high court held that an investigator's decision to close a neglect referral without removing a vulnerable man from his home was shielded by qualified immunity.