UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMER. v. FAERBER

No. 17076.

365 S.E.2d 353 (1986)

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, etc., et al., v. Kenneth FAERBER, Commissioner, West Virginia Department of Energy, et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

November 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McIntyre, Haviland and Jordan, Charleston, Michael Holland, General Counsel, UMWA, Washington, D.C., for United Mine Workers of America.

Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, John L. McClaugherty, Laura E. Beverage, Kay, Casto & Chaney, Richard D. Jones, Thomas V. Flaherty, Joseph M. Price, Timothy M. Miller, Edward N. Hall, Charleston, for Faerber, et al.


BROTHERTON, Justice:

This case is before us on a rule to show cause for contempt of this Court. The respondent is Kenneth Faerber, the Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Energy.1 The United Mine Workers of America charge that Faerber refused to obey an order of this Court directing him to enforce statutes requiring full roof bolting in all underground coal mine sections in this...

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