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3 Mar 2009, 7:37 am
Massey Coal Company [oral arguments transcript, PDF] the Court heard arguments on whether they should adopt a constitutional standard for requiring state judges to recuse themselves in cases where there is an "appearance of bias. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 2:42 pm by Associated Press
At the time, Blankenship’s company, Massey Energy, had a $50 million case pending before the court. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 10:07 pm
Massey Coal Company [docket; cert. petition, PDF] the Court will consider whether a decision by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Brent Benjamin [official profile] not to recuse himself from hearing a case against a financial contributor [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 12:17 pm
Massey Coal Co., which arose from an infamous West Virginia judicial election. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 2:53 pm
Massey Coal Co., holding that due process requires a state judge to recuse himself from a case involving the financial interests of a party who has made substantial donations to the judge's campaign for the bench. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 3:33 pm
" Today's issue of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains an article that begins, "For 10 years, Hugh Caperton, a financially debilitated coal producer from southern West Virginia, and the Pittsburgh attorneys who represent him have waged a courtroom war against Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, one of West Virginia's most powerful businessmen. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 3:05 am
An anticlimactic sequel to the Supreme Court's recent case on recusals and judicial election campaigns: the coal company defendant has again prevailed in the West Virginia Supreme Court, and by a wider margin than before, 4-1. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 9:17 am by Joe Consumer
”  Well, these lawyers may be off the hook, but the news isn’t all good for the mining industry, and especially for former Massey Energy head Don Blankenship, which ran the Upper Big Branch mine when an explosion killed 29 Massey miners. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 1:31 pm by Don Cruse
Massey Coal: The ways out of this box are not easy to see. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 3:20 am
Massey Coal Co. that judges must recuse themselves from cases involving people who spent exceptionally large sums to put them on the bench.In the case, a coal company spent over $3 million to help remove the incumbant judge and support the challenger (more than the total amount spent by all other supporters and three times the amount spent by the candidates own committee) and then subsequently received a very favorable ruling on its business interests from the new judge… [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 2:51 am
Massey Coal et al, the court found that a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals failed to properly recuse (or disqualify) himself. [read post]