Patricia S. Reed v. Joshua D. Beckett

FILED November 28, 2016 No. 15-1044 – Patricia S. Reed v. Joshua D. Beckett RORY L. PERRY II, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA BENJAMIN, Justice, dissenting: The most solemn duty of an American court lies in its pledge to protect the rights and liberties of private citizens from encroachment by the State. Here, the Majority not only badly misread applicable statutory law, it also sanctioned the infringement of two of our most basic natural rights: the right to do what one wants to do in the privacy of one’s estate so long as another is not harmed and the right to be left alone.…