Paving lawsuits may consolidate
With a total of seven plaintiffs that have filed antitrust lawsuits against West Virginia Paving in the past two weeks, the city of Charleston filed a motion to transfer and consolidate all the related cases in Kanawha County Circuit Court on Wednesday.
After the cities of Charleston, Beckley, Bluefield and Parkersburg filed suits against West Virginia Paving and several of its sister companies in their respective county courts on Oct. 12, the state Department of Transportation and Division of Highways, Kanawha County Commission and City of Huntington also filed their own civil actions.
The motion to consolidate was made by attorneys with Bailey & Glasser law firm, which is representing the plaintiffs.
The motion references West Virginia’s Rules of Civil Procedure, which states “the court in which the first such action was commenced shall order all the actions transferred to it or any other court in which any such action is pending.”
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