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The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia is the state supreme court of the state of West Virginia, the highest of West Virginia's state courts.The court sits primarily at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, although from 1873 to 1915, it was also required by state law to hold sessions in Charles Town in the state's Eastern Panhandle. [1]
Year Seat 1 Seat 2 Seat 3 Seat 4 Seat 5 1873: Moore: Paull: Hoffmann: A.F. Haymond: 1874 1875 Dec. 24: Green 1876 Jun. 13: Edmiston 1877: Johnson 1878 1879 1880 1881
Wooton was a law clerk for Judge John A. Field Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1971 to 1972; an assistant West Virginia Attorney General from 1972 to 1974; and an assistant Raleigh County prosecutor from 1974 to 1977. He practiced law in Beckley with the firm Wooton, Wooton & Fragile from 1977 until 1994 ...
Courts of West Virginia include: State courts of West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia [1] Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia (Effective July 1, 2022) [2] West Virginia Circuit Courts (31 judicial circuits) [1] West Virginia Family Courts [1] West Virginia Magistrate Courts [1] West Virginia Municipal Courts [1]
Richard Forlani Neely (August 2, 1941 – November 8, 2020) was a justice and chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1995. [1] When he took office, he became the youngest judge of a court of last resort in the English-speaking world in the 20th century.
A House committee in West Virginia voted Thursday to bring 14 charges of impeachment against all four state Supreme Court justices.
Note that, due to the several changes in the size of the Court since it was established in 1789, two seats have been abolished, both as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 (and before the Court established the practice of hiring law clerks). Consequently, neither "seat 5" nor "seat 7" has a list article.
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is the state supreme court. There is an Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia which only hears civil and administrative appeals. Criminal appeals go directly from the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. By tradition, the position of "Chief Justice" rotates yearly.