STATE EX REL. JEANETTE H. v. PANCAKE

No. 27061.

529 S.E.2d 865 (2000)

207 W.Va. 154

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. JEANETTE H., Petitioner, v. Honorable David M. PANCAKE, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided April 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Matthew Vital, Vital & Vital, L.C., Huntington, West Virginia, Attorney for the Petitioner.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, William P. Jones, Assistant Attorney General, Bureau for Children & Families, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for Respondent, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.

Lisa F. White, Huntington, West Virginia, Guardian ad Litem for the minor children.


DAVIS, Justice:

In this original proceeding in prohibition, petitioner, Jeanette H.,1 a parent who was incarcerated by the State of West Virginia, sought to prohibit the Honorable David M. Pancake, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, from refusing to order her transportation to a dispositional hearing where her parental rights to her five minor children might be terminated. During the...

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