West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis has rejected a second request to recuse herself from nursing home cases, the Charleston Daily Mail's Andrea Lannom reports. The justice's recusal has been sought because a plaintiff's attorney in a nursing home case helped raise money for the justice's election campaign and purchased a private jet from the justice's husband for $1 million.
Davis said the contributions from the lawyer and his associates were less than one-half of one percent of contributions to her 2012 campaign and she wasn't aware of the price paid for the private jet because it was sold through a broker retained by her husband.
In the first nursing home case in which Davis' recusal was sought, a jury awarded $91.5 million; Davis, who wrote the majority opinion for the West Virginia Supreme Court, reduced the award to $38 million. A second nursing home case is pending before the Supreme Court over what documents are privileged from disclosure.
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