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West Virginia: Code of Judicial Conduct Canon III b 7 "A judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, full right to be heard according to law. [49] Wisconsin: Const. Art 1 § 21 (2)
The Constitution of the State of West Virginia [1] is the supreme law of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It expresses the rights of the state's citizens and provides the framework for the organization of law and government. West Virginia is governed under its second and current constitution, which dates from 1872.
In December 2011, Delegate John Doyle introduced a bill to legalize civil unions in West Virginia as one of his last acts before retirement in 2012. [5] [6] It was submitted to the House of Delegates in February 2012 and died without a vote. [7] West Virginia extended hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples through a designated visitor ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Office was established to prevent and eliminate unlawful employment discrimination and to promote diversity in West Virginia state government. The Ethics Commission implements and enforces a code of ethical conduct enacted by the Legislature for public servants.
[citation needed] The 1961 law was a part of a political deal whereby southern legislators agreed to these changes, and northern legislators withdrew their blocking of the renaming of Marshall College, which had been accredited as a "university" since 1937 and which is located in southern West Virginia, to Marshall University. This system ...
West Virginia's primary abortion statute is a holdover from a Virginia law passed in 1848. [6] The statute reads: Any person who shall administer to, or cause to be taken by, a woman, any drug or other thing, or use any means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage, and shall thereby destroy such child, or produce such abortion or miscarriage, shall be ...
Aug. 8—It should be to our remorse that about 300 West Virginians die from gun violence every year, and nearly three out of four people in West Virginia who end their own lives do so with a gun ...
310 and 490 same-sex marriages were performed in West Virginia in 2014 and 2015, respectively, [21] [22] with most performed in Cabell County at 155, followed by Kanawha County at 107, Wood County at 61, Monongalia County at 51, Ohio County at 47, and Harrison County at 40. Same-sex marriages represented about 4% of all marriages conducted in 2015.