Massey Energy case upset

[Bravo Zulu]

High court splits, 5-4, finding 'risk of actual bias' by W.Va. justice who got campaign funds

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that a West Virginia State Supreme Court justice should not have participated in a case involving his largest campaign contributor.

By a 5-4 vote, the court sent the case involving coal company owner Hugh Caperton and Massey Energy back to the West Virginia Supreme Court, which overturned a 2002 lower court verdict ordering Massey to pay Mr. Caperton $50 million in damages.

Casting the deciding vote in the state court's 3-2 decision was Chief Justice Brent Benjamin, who received $3 million in campaign contributions from Massey CEO Don Blankenship.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09160/976034-84.stm#ixzz0HzF7ceS0&C

[Ikonoklast]

1. A wrong, righted.

Massey and that piece of crap Blankenship flat-out bought that WV SCJ Benjamin, lock, stock, and barrel.

I hope they have to pay throught the nose, the bastards.