State Ex Rel. City of Martinsburg v. Sanders

ALBRIGHT, Justice.

City of Martinsburg (hereinafter referred to as “Martinsburg”) invokes this Court’s original jurisdiction1 by seeking a writ of prohibition to bar the Circuit Court of Berkeley County from conducting further proceedings in an action based on a negligence claim seeking award of medical monitoring expenses brought against Martinsburg by current and former firefighters (hereinafter referred to as “Respondents”) employed by the city. Martinsburg maintains that the lower court committed clear legal error by denying its motion for judgment on the pleadings, thereby requiring…