WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORP. v. ROWING

No. 25825.

517 S.E.2d 763 (1999)

205 W.Va. 286

WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant Below, Appellant, v. Kyu Chong ROWING and West Virginia Human Rights Commission, Appellee Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra K. Law, Esq., Aimee L. Morgan, Esq., Schrader Byrd & Companion, PLLC, Wheeling, West Virginia, Attorney for Appellant.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, Mary Catherine Buchmelter, Deputy Attorney General, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for West Virginia Human Rights Commission.

Allan N. Karlin, Esq., Morgantown, West Virginia, Attorney for all Amici Curiae.

Jane E. Peak, Esq., Allan N. Karlin & Associates, Morgantown, West Virginia, Attorney for AARP and all Amici Curiae.

Franklin D. Cleckley, Esq., Morgantown, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, West Virginia State Conference of Branches of the NAACP.

Ron L. Tucker, Esq., Fairmont, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, West Virginia State Conference of Branches of the NAACP.

Grant Crandall, Esq., Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, United Mine Workers of America.

William B. McGinley, Esq., Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, West Virginia Education Association.

Christine M. Hedges, Esq., Spencer, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, West Virginia Chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Thomas Patrick Maroney, Esq., Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for amicus curiae, West Virginia AFL-CIO.


McGRAW, Justice:

Appellant, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation ("Wheeling-Pittsburgh"), appeals the Circuit Court of Kanawha County's affirmance of the final decision of the West Virginia Human Rights Commission ("HRC" or "Commission"), which found that Wheeling-Pittsburgh violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act (the "Human Rights Act"), W. Va.Code §§ 5-11-1 to -19, by discriminating against an employee...

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