Today attorneys for The Observer filed their brief for the case The Shepherdstown Observer vs Jennifer Maghan in the Supreme Court of West Virginia. This follows the earlier decision by the court to hear the case. The defendants will now have an opportunity to respond.
The Observer is asking the court to overturn the decision made [...]

In January, the West Virginia Supreme Court voted 5-0 to hear The Shepherdstown Observer v. Maghan. We brought this case last year against the Jefferson County Clerk, Jennifer Maghan, after her office refused to release the names of the people who signed the petition calling for a referendum on the new zoning ordinance in the [...]

 
New documents released by the Jefferson County Clerk’s office reveal for the first time how close the deputy clerks worked with zoning referendum petition organizers Ed Burns and Ronda Lehman. The documents were released following a Freedom of Information Act request by The Observer, and are part of a wider drive to shed light on [...]