UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMER. v. FAERBER

No. 17076.

365 S.E.2d 357 (1987)

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, etc., et al. v. Kenneth FAERBER, Commr., W.Va. Dept. of Energy, et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

June 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McIntyre, Haviland, & Jordan, Daniel F. Hedges, Charleston, Michael Holland, Washington, D.C., for United Mine Workers of America.

Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, Kay, Casto & Chaney, J. Price, T. Miller, E. Hall, Charleston, for Faerber et al.


MILLER, Justice:

In this case we are asked to determine whether a public official who has been adjudged in contempt of an order of this Court and has been ordered to pay a monetary fine is liable for the payment personally or in his official capacity. In United Mine Workers of America v. Faerber, ___ W.Va. ___, 365 S.E.2d 353 (1986), we found the respondent, Kenneth Faerber, the Commissioner of the Department of Energy, in...

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