STATE EX REL. CHARLES TOWN HOSP. v. SANDERS

No. 29770.

556 S.E.2d 85 (2001)

210 W.Va. 118

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. the CHARLES TOWN GENERAL HOSPITAL, dba Jefferson Memorial Hospital, and the Medical Staff of the Charles Town General Hospital, dba Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Petitioners, v. The Honorable David H. SANDERS, Judge of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, Anna Marie Chaffins, and Thomas Chaffins, Jr., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided November 9, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Gregory Haddad, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC, Morgantown, Ancil G. Ramey, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC, Charleston, for the Petitioners.

D. Michael Burke, Esq., Burke, Schultz and Harman, Martinsburg, Barry J. Nace, Esq., Paulson & Nace, Washington, District of Columbia, for the Respondents.

Paul T. Farrell, Jr., Esq., Wilson, Frame, Benninger & Metheney, PLLC, Morgantown, for Amicus Curiae, West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.


DAVIS, Justice.

The petitioners herein, the Charles Town General Hospital, doing business as Jefferson Memorial Hospital, and the Medical Staff thereof [hereinafter collectively referred to as "the Hospital" or "Jefferson Memorial Hospital"], request this Court to issue a writ of prohibition to prevent the Circuit Court of Berkeley County from enforcing its order entered March 23, 2001. By that order, the circuit court,...

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