Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Coleman

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

This matter is before the Court on the Court of Appeals’s denial of a petition for a writ of prohibition. Appellant, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc., sought the writ to bar the circuit judge, who had recused himself from the case, from further participating in the matter, including hearing a motion to reconsider his recusal order. The Court of Appeals applied the wrong standard, and failed to address whether the trial judge was proceeding or about to proceed outside his jurisdiction. Because the action Judge Coleman has proposed to take exceeds his…