State Ex Rel. Ohl v. Egnor

DAVIS, Justice:

In this original proceeding for a writ of prohibition, the petitioner, Joan E. Ohl, in her capacity as Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, requests this Court to prohibit the respondent, the Honorable L.D. Egnor, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, from taking any action to enforce his order of August 29,1997, and his ruling of September 3, 1997. The challenged order and ruling required the Department of Health and Human Resources to place a juvenile, who had previously been adjudicated delinquent and had been placed in the…