http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Massey Energy Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134207 West Virginia's highest court has upheld on remand its decision to overturn a $50 million verdict against Massey Energy Co. in a dispute over coal contracts, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the court should have disqualified a judge who received campaign funds from a Massey executive. http://www.law360.com/articles/134207 http://www.law360.com/articles/131479 A unit of Massey Energy Co. has settled a class action over age bias claims, a deal that includes a group of unionized miners the company has separately been ordered to rehire after allegedly discriminating against them on the basis of their union status. http://www.law360.com/articles/131479 http://www.law360.com/articles/127752 American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. has moved to compel arbitration in a case brought by a Massey Energy Co. unit over payment for a multimillion-dollar settlement of wrongful death claims brought by the widows of two miners who died in a 2006 fire in one of the company's coal mines. http://www.law360.com/articles/127752 http://www.law360.com/articles/127330 Nonprofit conservation group Trout Unlimited is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case in which the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition claims the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abused its discretion when it issued four permits allowing mountaintop mining outfits to fill headwater streams. http://www.law360.com/articles/127330 http://www.law360.com/articles/126217 A unit of Massey Energy Co. has suffered yet another blow in its long-running battle with unionized miners, with the National Labor Relations Board affirming a judge's order that the company unlawfully discriminated on the basis of union status by refusing to rehire the employees when it acquired a bankrupt rival. http://www.law360.com/articles/126217 http://www.law360.com/articles/126059 A judge has dismissed a shareholder derivative action against Massey Energy Co. that alleged the coal producer's directors breached their fiduciary duties by failing to ensure compliance with environmental and worker-safety laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/126059 http://www.law360.com/articles/120871 West Virginia's highest court reconsidered Tuesday whether to uphold a $50 million verdict against Massey Energy Co., this time without the chief justice, whose reversal of the verdict was tarnished by connections to the coal giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/120871 http://www.law360.com/articles/115570 A federal judge has lifted a stay on a dispute between a Massey Energy Co. unit and American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. over payment for a multimillion-dollar settlement of a wrongful death suit brought by the widows of two miners who died in a 2006 fire in one of the company's coal mines. http://www.law360.com/articles/115570 http://www.law360.com/articles/114469 The West Virginia Supreme Court has reportedly ordered an investigation into allegations regarding a circuit judge's allegedly improper behavior in a water pollution case against Massey Energy Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/114469 http://www.law360.com/articles/113178 Coal producer Massey Energy Co. said Friday that it would drop a suit seeking review of the West Virginia Supreme Court's judicial recusal policies, saying the suit's “driving forces” — including former high court Justice Larry Starcher — are no longer an issue. http://www.law360.com/articles/113178 http://www.law360.com/articles/112288 West Virginians alleging that a Massey Energy Co. unit destroyed their groundwater supply with more than 1 billion gallons of coal slurry are reportedly demanding that a state judge recuse himself from the case due to his friendship with Massey's CEO and his appointment of another friend to oversee a monitoring fund. http://www.law360.com/articles/112288 http://www.law360.com/articles/109568 A federal appeals court has affirmed a judge's order that Massey Energy Co. must rehire union miners who lost their jobs when it acquired a bankrupt rival in 2004, but that it does not have to negotiate with a union pending an appeal of a National Labor Relations Board decision. http://www.law360.com/articles/109568 http://www.law360.com/articles/106951 The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection will stop approving coal companies' requests to inject slurry into mines until more studies can be done, the agency noted during a discussion with state lawmakers. http://www.law360.com/articles/106951 http://www.law360.com/articles/99602 Pretrial proceedings began Monday for more than 700 plaintiffs from several West Virginia communities alleging that Massey Energy Co. subsidiary Rawl Sales & Processing Co. destroyed their groundwater supply by injecting more than 1 billion gallons of coal slurry into abandoned mines. http://www.law360.com/articles/99602 http://www.law360.com/articles/97334 Favoring a parallel action under way in Virginia state court, a federal judge has stayed Massey Energy Co.'s lawsuit against a clutch of insurers who refuse to reimburse Massey for any of the $244 million it paid in damages over a contract dispute. http://www.law360.com/articles/97334 http://www.law360.com/articles/96946 A federal judge has approved a Massey Energy unit's plea deal and accompanying $2.5 million fine related to a January 2006 fire that left two miners dead, ignoring protests by the victims’ widows that the move unfairly shields Massey executives from further prosecution. http://www.law360.com/articles/96946 http://www.law360.com/articles/96325 A former Massey Energy Co. unit foreman has pled guilty to federal charges arising from a January 2006 fire at one of the energy giant's subsidiaries that left two miners dead. http://www.law360.com/articles/96325 http://www.law360.com/articles/85313 A Massey Energy Co. foreman has been formally indicted on a slew of federal charges connected to a January 2006 fire at one of the energy giant's subsidiaries that resulted in two miners' deaths. http://www.law360.com/articles/85313 http://www.law360.com/articles/83248 American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. is asking a federal court to force Massey Energy Co. into arbitration aimed at settling a dispute over coverage of a 2007 judgment against the company that totaled nearly $220 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/83248 http://www.law360.com/articles/83159 A Massey Energy Co. subsidiary has pled guilty to criminal charges and paid a $2.5 million fine for safety violations stemming from a massive mine fire that led to the deaths of two miners in 2006. http://www.law360.com/articles/83159