West Virginia – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:01:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Lawyer billed over 6,600 hours in year https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/lawyer-billed-over-6600-hours-in-year/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/lawyer-billed-over-6600-hours-in-year/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:05:10 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73909 Plausibility matters: “to hit $600,000 in two years Lester [a court-appointed defense lawyer in Charleston, W.V.] would have had to bill 13,333.3 hours during that time. This of course would be an average of 6,666.6 hours per year. Is that a lot? No. It’s an awful lot.” And when discovered, it got him in trouble, […]

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]]> Plausibility matters: “to hit $600,000 in two years Lester [a court-appointed defense lawyer in Charleston, W.V.] would have had to bill 13,333.3 hours during that time. This of course would be an average of 6,666.6 hours per year. Is that a lot? No. It’s an awful lot.” And when discovered, it got him in trouble, especially after an investigation found at least 17 days for which he had billed more than 24 hours. [Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar]

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]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/lawyer-billed-over-6600-hours-in-year/feed/ 8 Great moments in negligent security suits https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/03/great-moments-in-negligent-security-suits/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:05:30 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73051 “In his deposition, [plaintiff] Porterfield said he may have bitten someone’s ear, but he didn’t know whose.” The suit by a now-West Virginia lawmaker, still pending after years, seeks to hold a now-defunct Indiana bar legally responsible for the catastrophic injuries he suffered during the affray. [Jake Zuckerman, Gazette Mail] Tags: personal responsibility, West Virginia

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]]> “In his deposition, [plaintiff] Porterfield said he may have bitten someone’s ear, but he didn’t know whose.” The suit by a now-West Virginia lawmaker, still pending after years, seeks to hold a now-defunct Indiana bar legally responsible for the catastrophic injuries he suffered during the affray. [Jake Zuckerman, Gazette Mail]

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]]> February 20 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/february-20-roundup-3/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/february-20-roundup-3/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:54:16 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73002 Get me Civics, and make it an emergency: West Virginia legislature “moves to withhold judicial retirement benefits until state supreme court overturns a ruling” [Gavel to Gavel] Do threats to publish intimate pictures of Jeff Bezos fall under provisions of criminal blackmail law? [Eugene Volokh] Manuel Reyes, head of the Puerto Rico Food Marketing, Industry […]

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  • Get me Civics, and make it an emergency: West Virginia legislature “moves to withhold judicial retirement benefits until state supreme court overturns a ruling” [Gavel to Gavel]
  • Do threats to publish intimate pictures of Jeff Bezos fall under provisions of criminal blackmail law? [Eugene Volokh]
  • Manuel Reyes, head of the Puerto Rico Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution Chamber, argues that policy shifts have heightened the costs of the Jones Act [Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb Brown, earlier]
  • Battle of the Ilyas: Ilya Shapiro vs. Ilya Somin on sanctuary city and state litigation [Federalist Society podcast]
  • “Most comprehensive study to date on the effects of voter ID argues that these laws have no effects on overall turnout or on the turnout of any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation,” or on real or perceived fraud; results “cannot be attributed to mobilization against the laws” either [Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons, National Bureau of Economic Research] [via]
  • Worst Pigouvian tax idea of the year? Oklahoma lawmaker proposes taxing Uber surge pricing to combat DUI [Ryan Bourne]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/02/february-20-roundup-3/feed/ 5     West Virginia’s constitutional crisis https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/10/west-virginias-constitutional-crisis/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/10/west-virginias-constitutional-crisis/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:09:07 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=72713 Timothy Sandefur has been tracking (continued) the constitutional crisis unfolding in West Virginia, in which the legislature has impeached all of the Justices on the state’s supreme Court and the courts have struck back with a ruling refusing to recognize the legislature’s authority to impeach under such circumstances. Tags: West Virginia

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    ]]>     Timothy Sandefur has been tracking (continued) the constitutional crisis unfolding in West Virginia, in which the legislature has impeached all of the Justices on the state’s supreme Court and the courts have struck back with a ruling refusing to recognize the legislature’s authority to impeach under such circumstances.

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/10/west-virginias-constitutional-crisis/feed/ 10     Liability roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/03/liability-roundup-39/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/03/liability-roundup-39/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:08:14 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68799 Poster case for cy pres abuse: Cato files amicus brief in Google referral header privacy class action settlement [Ilya Shapiro, earlier] “California Court Decision Offers Hope for Procedural Brake on Lawyer-Driven Class Actions” [Glenn Lammi, WLF on Noel v. Thrifty Payless] New book details Tampa attorney Brian Donovan’s frustrations with multi-district litigation (MDL) in Transocean […]

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  • Poster case for cy pres abuse: Cato files amicus brief in Google referral header privacy class action settlement [Ilya Shapiro, earlier]
  • “California Court Decision Offers Hope for Procedural Brake on Lawyer-Driven Class Actions” [Glenn Lammi, WLF on Noel v. Thrifty Payless]
  • New book details Tampa attorney Brian Donovan’s frustrations with multi-district litigation (MDL) in Transocean spill case [Amanda Robert, Legal NewsLine]
  • West Virginia: “House moves to limit Attorney General’s use of settlement funds” [Brad McElhinny, WV Metro News]
  • “2017 Civil Justice Update” [Mark Behrens and Sarah Goggans, Federalist Society white paper]
  • “Here’s why you’ll be paying more for car insurance if you live in Baton Rouge, New Orleans” [Dan Fagan, The Advocate]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/03/liability-roundup-39/feed/ 4     Medical roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/medical-roundup-56/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/medical-roundup-56/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:01:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=67094 In welcome reversal of Obama-era ban, FDA will once more permit direct-to-consumer genetic testing [Meghana Keshavan/STAT News, FDA press release] Will California law hold a pharmaceutical maker liable — in perpetuity — for a drug that it did not make and did not sell? [Steven Boranian/Drug & Device Law, PLF on T.H. v. Novartis] Litigation […]

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  • In welcome reversal of Obama-era ban, FDA will once more permit direct-to-consumer genetic testing [Meghana Keshavan/STAT News, FDA press release]
  • Will California law hold a pharmaceutical maker liable — in perpetuity — for a drug that it did not make and did not sell? [Steven Boranian/Drug & Device Law, PLF on T.H. v. Novartis]
  • Litigation funding group chases clients in hip replacement litigation [PR Newswire]
  • ACA penalizes hospitals for high Medicare readmission rates, but new study links that policy to higher mortality for heart failure patients [Arnold Kling, Ankur Gupta et al., JAMA Cardiology, Cristina Boccuti and Giselle Casillas, Kaiser Family Foundation]
  • Litigation tourism model that has done well for plaintiff’s bar now circling drain after Supreme Court’s Bauman, Bristol-Myers Squibb decisions [Jim Beck, Drug & Device Law, more, yet more; related on West Virginia, and from Michelle Yeary on choice of law and forum non conveniens]
  • “FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Goes to Bat For Evidence-Based Opioid Policies” [Mike Riggs, Reason] “Abuse-Deterrent Opioids Cross an Ethical Line” [Jeffrey Singer, Orange County Register]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/12/medical-roundup-56/feed/ 6     “Lawyer submitted bills for working over 24 hours in a day. Twice.” https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/lawyer-submitted-bills-working-24-hours-day-twice/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/lawyer-submitted-bills-working-24-hours-day-twice/#comments Wed, 10 May 2017 10:13:11 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64371 “West Virginia’s top court imposed a two-year suspension on a lawyer who submitted bills for court-appointed work for more than 24 hours a day on two different occasions.” [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal] Tags: ethics, feeing frenzy, West Virginia

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    ]]>     “West Virginia’s top court imposed a two-year suspension on a lawyer who submitted bills for court-appointed work for more than 24 hours a day on two different occasions.” [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal]

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/lawyer-submitted-bills-working-24-hours-day-twice/feed/ 14     Liability roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/07/liability-roundup-19/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/07/liability-roundup-19/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:05:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=60169 Mikal Watts trial begins over claims of fraud in BP gulf spill claims [AP, Miriam Rozen/Texas Lawyer, Alison Frankel/Reuters, earlier] If someone spilled hot coffee on you, would it take you two years to react? [Southeast Texas Record on filing just before runout of statute of limitations] “Woman Sues Construction Company For Allowing Man To […]

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  • Mikal Watts trial begins over claims of fraud in BP gulf spill claims [AP, Miriam Rozen/Texas Lawyer, Alison Frankel/Reuters, earlier]
  • If someone spilled hot coffee on you, would it take you two years to react? [Southeast Texas Record on filing just before runout of statute of limitations]
  • “Woman Sues Construction Company For Allowing Man To Kill Himself By Jumping From Hi-Rise And Landing On Her Car” [CBS Los Angeles]
  • “Families: Hamas on Facebook, so firm must pay $1B after terror deaths” [Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica]
  • Cloud of blame: “W.V. Firm Blames Almost 300 Companies In Each Asbestos Lawsuit” [Jessica Karmasek, Forbes]
  • Singer Collette McLafferty, sued over $75 cover-band gig, is poster person for New York bill to curb meritless lawsuits [Michaela Kilgallen, Albany Times-Union]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/07/liability-roundup-19/feed/ 3     Rating states on legal climates https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/10/rating-states-on-legal-climates/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:15:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55501 “West Virginia courts have a well-deserved reputation for favoring plaintiffs, but the state’s Supreme Court may have gone too far this year when it said drug addicts who broke the law to obtain narcotics could sue the doctors and pharmacies who supposedly fed their addiction.” Rulings like that, writes Daniel Fisher, are one reason West […]

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    ]]>     “West Virginia courts have a well-deserved reputation for favoring plaintiffs, but the state’s Supreme Court may have gone too far this year when it said drug addicts who broke the law to obtain narcotics could sue the doctors and pharmacies who supposedly fed their addiction.” Rulings like that, writes Daniel Fisher, are one reason West Virginia perennially ranks at the bottom in the U.S. Chamber’s ranking of state legal climates, and did again this year. Louisiana, Illinois, and California are other cellar-dwellers, while Alabama and Texas, despite extensive reforms and the success of business-oriented candidates in many judicial races, also languish in the lower ranks with continuing problems such as the litigation atmosphere of east Texas [Lou Ann Anderson/Watchdog Arena] More: Bob Dorigo Jones. Related, from ALEC: State Lawsuit Reform.

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    ]]>         “Justices say addicts can sue doctors, pharmacies for addiction” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/05/justices-say-addicts-can-sue-doctors-pharmacies-for-addiction/ Fri, 15 May 2015 04:05:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53159 West Virginia: “A state Supreme Court ruling says juries can decide if residents who have broken the law by obtaining and using prescription painkillers can sue physicians and pharmacies for their addictions.” [Chamber-backed W.V. Record] Tags: criminals who sue, illegal drugs, pharmaceuticals, West Virginia

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    ]]>     West Virginia: “A state Supreme Court ruling says juries can decide if residents who have broken the law by obtaining and using prescription painkillers can sue physicians and pharmacies for their addictions.” [Chamber-backed W.V. Record]

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