W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA judge has reprimanded an attorney for ousted state schools superintendent Jorea Marple for using profanity and calling the West Virginia Board of Education’s lawyers “crooks.”
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Kanawha Circuit Court Judge James Stucky also ordered attorney Tim Barber to pay court costs incurred by the board’s lawyers in pursuing the sanctions. A lawyer for the board estimated those costs at $2,500 to $3,000.
The motion stemmed in part from remarks Barber made in an article last month in the Gazette-mail. Barber apologized for the remarks.
He also was accused of berating staff members of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, the law firm defending the board in a lawsuit filed by Marple. Barber denied using profanity against the firm’s office manager.