var verdicts = [ { title: "Angel Rife vs. Ercle Riley Maynard", judge: "Miki Thompson", attorney: "Todd Mount", court: "Civil Action #12-C-305", county: "Mingo", state: "WV", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/2c39b63c-4adc-4ff3-b3db-d920335c6540.pdf", description: `Case facts - single vehicle accident. Admitted liability. Plaintiff, a guest passenger, had a pre-existing herniated disc. Claimed an exacerbation resulting in neurosurgery. Claimed medical bills of $64,000.00. Radiological evidence disputed, but largely favored defense. Subjective complaints of worsening symptoms after accident. `, keywords: `Mingo County` }, { title: "Civil Rights Memo Opinion MSJ", judge: "Copenhaver", attorney: "Cy Hill", court: "2:14-CV-15087", county: "Kanawha", state: "AL", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/0a5f02c3-b0af-44e0-93fe-08da04a3ec01.pdf", description: `Civil right suit involving allegations of excessive use of force by police officers`, keywords: `excessive use of force, 1983, civil rights` }, { title: "Civil Rights Verdict Form", judge: "Copenhaver", attorney: "Cy Hill", court: "2:14-CV-15087", county: "Kanawha", state: "AL", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/f9890c63-33b4-4323-b108-3c0608d0fa76.pdf", description: `1983 suit involving alleged use of force during a traffic stop.`, keywords: `civil rights, 1983, excessive use of force, malicious prosecution, public entity` }, { title: "Crum vs. McComas", judge: "Keadle", attorney: "John Teare", court: "15-C-68", county: "Mingo", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/c5193fd5-cedf-4f02-bc62-af055b37f638.pdf", description: `Plaintiff sued Sherif and others for funeral costs following murder of Mingo county sheriff. Claims against Sheriff McComas dismissed on Rule 12 motion.`, keywords: `Funeral expense, implied contract, Rule 12(b)(6)` }, { title: "Denny v. NSRC- Grants Summary J. in a FELA release case", judge: "Arthur M. Recht", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "", county: "Kanawha/FELA asb. Mass Litigation Panel", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/2c5b07a1-54b7-4ae0-9b60-46a857d537d3.PDF", description: `Order grants Summ. J. in FELA release case.`, keywords: `Asbestos Cancer Release "Federal Employers Liability Act" FELA` }, { title: "Dismissal order Douglas Thompson v. NSRC", judge: "Jay M. Hoke", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "18-C-57/02-C-9500", county: "Asbestos MLP", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/4967a984-b302-49ae-bd5a-159a6827470f.pdf", description: `Plaintiff would not answer discovery, so the court dismissed this FELA death case because the plaintiff would not make discovery, and also granted summary judgment because plaintiff had no evidence to support his case.`, keywords: `Discovery, Dismissal, Summary Judgment` }, { title: "ELVA M. ROBERTSON, Administratrix for the ESTATE of FREDDIE ROBERTSON v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company", judge: "Eric O'Briant", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "20-C-156", county: "Mingo", state: "West Virginia", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/1623947562_robertson_order.pdf", description: `Plaintiff's decedent had an occupational disease claim against Norfolk Southern Railway Company in the 1990's, which he settled and for which he signed a release. He later contracted lung cancer from which he died. His widow sued NSRC under the FELA, 45 U.`, keywords: `FELA, Federal Employers' Liability Act, Release, Summary Judgment, O'Briant` }, { title: "Kimes v. Hoffert judgment order", judge: "Tatterson", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "", county: "Mason County", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/607aaad4-b69e-48aa-bdbf-a28053fca029.pdf", description: `Grants summary judgment to property owner to eject supposed adverse possessor`, keywords: `Adverse possession, premises` }, { title: "Linda Collins vs. Louada Dillon", judge: "Judge Witten", attorney: "Todd Mount", court: "Civil Action # 14-C217-W", county: "Logan", state: "WV", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/30712e90-95d9-4d1c-b867-d1c1fb086630.pdf", description: `It was Judge Witten's first civil trial as judge. It was a vehicle / pedestrian impact. Jury assessed 70% fault on the plaintiff.`, keywords: `Logan County` }, { title: "Matthew P. Wilson v. City of Bridgeport, et al.", judge: "Bedell", attorney: "Tiffany Durst", court: "22-C-198-2", county: "Harrison", state: "WV", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "", description: `This is the Special Interrogatories and Verdict Form from a case tried July 9-12, and 15, 2024. Plaintiff was terminated by the City from his employment and Plaintiff claimed he was wrongfully terminated. He claimed that he was discriminated against on the basis of a claimed disability (PTSD); the City failed to accommodate his claimed disability by not granting him FMLA; the City retaliating against him because he reported sexual harassment; and, the City discriminated against him because he had filed a workers' compensation claim. He asserted claims under the WVHRA and the Workers' Comp statute. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the City on all counts. Plaintiff has filed a post-trial motion, which remains pending before the Court.`, keywords: `disability, discrimination, failure to accommodate reprisal/retaliation, West Virginia Human Rights Act workers' compensation, wrongful termination` }, { title: "Memorandum Opinion and Order", judge: "Stamp", attorney: "Laurie Barbe", court: "5:15cv146", county: "Ohio", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/cb3995a0-7464-4a76-be81-3b54039d20fc.pdf", description: `Motion to dismiss based upon the one year SOL applicable to bad faith and breach of contract claims was granted. Court rejected Plaintiffs' attempt to argue that the continuous tort doctrine should extend the applicable SOL`, keywords: `motion to dismiss, SOL, statute of limitations, one year, bad faith, breach of contract, continuous tort doctrine` }, { title: "Napier v The Dunford Roofing", judge: "William Sadler", attorney: "John McGee Jr.", court: "09-C-312", county: "Mercer", state: "WV", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/94a509b5-fcf5-4948-bf3c-2163b22a58fa.pdf", description: `Napier v The Dunford Roofing`, keywords: `Napier, Dunford Roofing, William Sadler, John McGee Jr, Michael Gibson, David Kersey` }, { title: "NO 6 TEST", judge: "TEST", attorney: "TEST TEST", court: "TEST", county: "TEST", state: "TEST", documentType: "TEST", documentURL: "", description: `TEST TEST TEST`, keywords: `TEST` }, { title: "Order (Rice v. CSXT)", judge: "Frederick Stamp", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "5:01CV74", county: "None", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/93dc9cae-fc5f-4662-99ea-ccacc486ab1c.pdf", description: `Denies plaintiffs' Motion to Remand and grants Motion to Dismiss for failure to state a claim.`, keywords: `FELA Injury removal remand ` }, { title: "Order Granting Motion for Summary Judgment of Third-Party Defendants, Robert S. Lang, Lang Brothers, Inc., and Crystal Ridge Development, Inc.", judge: "Judge John Lewis Marks, Jr.", attorney: "Tiffany Durst", court: "09-C-57-1", county: "Harrison", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/f8e7a9b6-df28-455f-95e7-8b4ad79cb445.pdf", description: `Summary Judgment Order to Third-Party Defendants`, keywords: `Res Judicata` }, { title: "Order granting Motion to Dismiss", judge: "John P. Bailey", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "", county: "Brooke", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/329f45b3-0431-4702-b09a-e72b0d1f1577.pdf", description: `Court ruled, per Noland v. Va. Ins. , 224 W.Va. 372, 686 S.E.2d 23 (2009), that the discovery rule extends to first party uninsured cases`, keywords: `Statute of Limitations, Insurance, Discovery Rule` }, { title: "Order granting summary judgment to CSX Transportation, Inc.", judge: "Eric O'Briant", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "12-C-68", county: "Logan", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/43086c13-c741-44c4-b6e2-2eff71b3295a.PDF", description: `This order grants summary judgment to CSXT on claims of all of 11 plaintiffs' due to federal pre-emption under the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act. This was in a flooding case from Logan County, W.Va.`, keywords: `ICCTA, flood` }, { title: "Order Granting Summary Judgment to McDonald Land Company and excluding plaintiff’s expert D. Scott Simonton, Ph.D.", judge: "Eric O'Briant", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "12-C-68", county: "Logan", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/f13bc8f5-d87d-4850-99b8-80eb96d95bca.PDF", description: `Excludes engineering expert Simonton and grants summary Judgment to McDonald Land in a flood case.`, keywords: `Flooding. Summary Judgment. Logan ` }, { title: "Order granting summary judgment to Skidrow Timbering", judge: "Eric O'Briant", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "12-C-68", county: "Logan", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/81257c96-2738-480c-a546-bb4a473d5007.pdf", description: `Grants summary judgment to a timbering company sued in a flood case in Logan County.`, keywords: `Flood Logan Summary Judgment` }, { title: "Order of Remand", judge: "Thomas Johnston", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "2:15-cv-13278", county: "None", state: "WV", documentType: "Opinion/Order", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/804f47f2-c58c-4ad9-a632-8f8f4d1e7dce.pdf", description: `Case was removed from W.Va. Asbestos MLP by General Electric on grounds of public contractor defense. Plaintiffs denied making a claim that would generate this defense, and the court remanded.`, keywords: `asbestos removal remand public contractor defense` }, { title: "Revised Order Granting Summary Judgment to CSXT", judge: "Eric O'Briant", attorney: "Luke Lafferre", court: "", county: "Logan County", state: "WV", documentType: "Verdict", documentURL: "http://dtcwv.org/assets/pdf/7728b809-09e4-47fa-bc52-fef505741347.pdf", description: `Summary judgment was granted on a flooding case, was remanded by the W.Va. Sup. 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