Reporter sues W.Va. State, president over FOIA requests | The West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON -- A freelance reporter is suing West Virginia State University for failing to satisfy repeated Freedom of Information Act requests.

Hazo W. Carter Jr., the president of West Virginia State University, was also named as a defendant in the suit.

On Aug. 17, 2011, Jay Lawrence Smith read in an article published in the Charleston Daily Mail of a study WVSU commissioned to help determine ways it could raise nearly $26 million in private funds, according to a complaint filed April 9 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

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Judge dismisses breach of contract suit against W.Va. State | West Virginia Record

Suit filed last year alleging State backed out on deal bringing Jeezy to campus.

WVSU Research Corp. settles wrongful termination suit for $55K | West Virginia Record

Though reached in '09, officials attempted to keep details secret.

W.Va. State Research Corp. named in another termination suit | West Virginia Record

Marie Estep's comes in midst of details revealed in '09 settlement involving Katara Sowell.

Former Agriculture inspector settles wrongful termination suit for $300K | West Virginia Record

However, details about Dan Hull's 2009 firing remain a mystery.

State sued over cancelled Jeezy concert | The West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON - A concert promoter alleges he was dissed by a local university when it cancelled a scheduled performance by a well-known hip-hop artist.

West Virginia State University is named as a co-defendant in a four-count breach of contract suit filed by Don Staples. In his complaint filed Feb. 8 in Kanawha Circuit Court, Staples, 59, of South Charleston, alleges he lost over $300,000 when WVSU officials pulled the plug on a scheduled concert by Jay Wayne Jenkins aka "Jeezy" on WVSU's campus last year.

The West Virginia Board of Education and WVSU President Hazo W. Carter Jr. are named as co-defendants in the suit.

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