MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association has drafted a resolution asking the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s Chief Judicial Disciplinary Counsel and her deputy.
Earlier this month, members of the association voted during its Spring 2021 meeting this week in Morgantown to request the termination of Teresa Tarr and Brian Lanham.
On May 28, a copy of the two-page resolution was obtained by
The West Virginia Record. Tarr
“The JDC (Judicial Disciplinary Counsel) has repeatedly committed prosecutorial misconduct in such instances as, but not limited to, misstating the law to judicial officers and tribunals; bringing ethics charges against judicial officials when no canon violation nor infraction of the law has occurred; employing threatening, coercive and bullying tactics toward judicial officers; and using unauthorized and unprofessional means to communicate alleged infractions to a judicial officer; …
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association has drafted a resolution asking the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s Chief Judicial Disciplinary Counsel and her deputy.
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association plans to ask the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s top Judicial Disciplinary Counsel.
According to several members of the association, the membership voted this week during the Spring 2021 meeting this week in Morgantown to request the termination of Teresa Tarr.
None of the members would speak on the record regarding the vote, but all of them confirmed the vote did occur. One said the vote included almost 40 members and that “well more than half, maybe two-thirds” of the members voted to request Tarr’s termination. Tarr
Outgoing Association President Deanna Rock from Mineral County declined comment when asked about the meeting and the vote. Incoming President Brian Cromley from Jackson County did not return calls seeking comment.
CHARLESTON The state Supreme Court has ruled a senior status circuit judge was correct in granting summary judgment to the state by rejecting an appeal from five state employees who claimed they were shortchanged by a payroll cycle change.
On April 20, the justices affirmed the ruling made last year by Judge Thomas Evans, who sided with the state and said the employees are not owed any pay. The employees had argued that the switch of pay cycles from twice a month to every two weeks left them missing some of their salaries.
“We fought hard for West Virginia state workers’ wages,” Teresa Toriseva, one of the attorneys representing the employees, told
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court will decide whether to remand a case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay.
The petition was heard March 16. The petitioners – Lisa Wilkinson, Heather Morris, Kathryn A. Bradley, Pamela Stumpf and Lula V. Dickerson – are five state employees. But the case could affect up to 40,000 public employees. The respondents are Gov. Jim Justice, Auditor John B. McCuskey, former Treasurer John Perdue, Secretary of State Mac Warner, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins.
During the March 16 oral arguments, attorney Mike Ranson presented the case for the petitioners. He argued that the employee simply were not fully paid in the 2017 calendar year because of the state’s switch from twice monthly pay to biweekly. Bryan R. Cokeley presented the case for the respondents, who say the petitioners have identified no conduct that vio