State Ex Rel. the Ogden Newspapers, Inc. v. Wilkes

The petitioner/defendant below, Ogden Newspapers, Inc., doing business as The Journal Publishing Company (hereinafter “Ogden”), has invoked the original jurisdiction of this Court1 by seeking a writ of prohibition against respondent, the Honor*425able Christopher C. Wilkes, Judge of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, and respondent/plaintiff below, Richard W. Shaffer (hereinafter “Shaffer”). Ogden is seeking specifically to prohibit the circuit court from enforcing its order entered January 5, 2001, which denied Ogden’s motion to disqualify David M. Hammer and Robert J. Schiavoni (hereinafter…