Appeals court confirms bribery convictions of lawyer, coal company executive
ABA Journal Daily News
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The coal baron defamation case against HBO and John Oliver over a segment that aired on the comedy news show continues to be actively litigated. This time though, HBO is asking the court to decline hearing the case in Virginia, despite a federal court order sending the case to state court. HBO’s request makes arguments […]
The American Civil Liberties Union has a message for Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray: “You can’t sue people for being mean to you, Bob.” ABA Journal Daily News
When John Oliver committed 24 minutes of last week’s Last Week Tonight episode to the coal industry in general and Murray Energy Corporation CEO Robert E. Murray in particular, he knew he was courting a lawsuit. “I’m going to need to be careful here,” Oliver began, “because when we contacted Murray Energy for this piece, […]
More than 500 homes are for sale in Gillette … And ten percent of them are in foreclosure …after April's layoffs left more than a thousand people without incomes. Jamie Pederson of the Northeast Wyoming Realtor Alliance said, “So we do expect to see that number climb, but it's very slightly…6-12 months down the road […]
“We're struggling to pay every bill we have,” said McGrath, 50, of West Wheatfield in Indiana County, Pa., who is trying to support his wife and four children on about $ 600 per month in Social Security benefits he gets for an autistic son. A longtime worker on shallow oil and gas sites, McGrath went […]
A rare prosecution of a coal mining executive, following a 2010 explosion in West Virginia that killed 29 people, brought a mixed verdict from a… ABA Journal Daily News