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STATE EX REL. BLANKENSHIP v. RICHARDSON

No. 23119.

474 S.E.2d 906 (1996)

196 W.Va. 726

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Vennie BLANKENSHIP, Gladys Hensley, Alvis E. Brewer, Carl R. Sigley, Charles McGlone, George R. Nolley, Leonard Mullins, Paul Casto, Dewey Maynard, Glen Adkins, Bacil Gilles, Charles Wolford, Forrest E. Jacobs, Donnie Null, Sr., William J. Ocheltree, Gerald Ullom, Robert Albaugh, Kathleen Lavender, Forrest L. Tennant, John F. Takach, Richard D. Walton and Michael Warden, Petitioners, v. Andrew N. RICHARDSON, Workers' Compensation Commissioner, Consolidation Coal Company, Cannelton Industries, and Island Creek Coal Company, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Crandall, Crandall, Pyles & Haviland, Charleston, Robert M. Bastress, Jr., Morgantown, Jeffrey V. Mehalic, Segal & Davis, Charleston, Thomas P. Maroney, J. Robert Weaver, Edwin H. Pancake, Charleston, for Petitioners.

Thomas V. Flaherty, Michele Grinberg, Jeffrey M. Wakefield, Andrew B. Cooke, Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, Charleston, for Andrew N. Richardson.

John L. McClaugherty, Hoyt E. Glazer, Jackson & Kelly, Charleston, for Consolidation Coal Company, Cannelton Industries, and Island Creek Coal Company, Intervenors, and Amicus Curiae for the West Virginia Business and Industry Council.

Teresa C. Postle, Peter B. Chambers, Charleston, Amicus Curiae for the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

McHUGH, Chief Justice.

Petitioners herein, twenty-two West Virginia workers' compensation claimants, invoke this Court's original jurisdiction pursuant to W.Va. Const. Art. VIII, § 3 and W.Va.Code, 51-1-3 [1923] and seek a writ of mandamus against respondent Andrew N. Richardson, Commissioner of the Division of Workers' Compensation, Bureau of Employment Programs1 (hereinafter...

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