Tort Law
Top State Jurists Weigh In on W. Va. Recusal Issue
Posted 3 hours, 25 minutes ago
By Martha Neil
As March oral arguments near in a much-watched U.S. Supreme Court case about the circumstances under which a judicial campaign contribution should require a jurist's recusal, a substantial number of state supreme court justices are urging the nation's highest court to require a West Virginia colleague to step down in a controversal case.
In an amicus curiae brief filed by 27 chief justices and 19 justices of various state supreme courts in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co., the jurists argue there would be an appearance of impropriety if Chief Justice Brent Benjamin of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals doesn't step down from a $76 million business tort case involving the major contributor to his judicial campaign, reports the… Continue reading...
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