UNITED MINE WORKERS v. WATERS

No. 23838.

489 S.E.2d 266 (1997)

200 W.Va. 289

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL UNION 1938, Dana V. Bender, Clarence D. Dixon, Dennis D. Harris, Paul G. Isner, Donald D. Lloyd, Jerry A. Marco, Mason E. Payne, Larry I. Pigott, Dwight L. Riegel, Jimmie G. Samples, James H. Shiflett, Ronald L. Thorne and Wayne A. Woodall, Petitioners, v. The Honorable John L. WATERS, Judge of the Circuit Court of Barbour County, and Energy Marketing Company, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided February 24, 1997.

Dissenting Opinion of Justice Maynard July 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Donnelly, Hostler & Donnelly, L.C., Charleston, for Petitioners.

Anthony Julian, Charles Anderson, Fairmont, for Respondents.


STARCHER, Justice:

This is a writ of prohibition in which the petitioners, a labor union local and thirteen of its members, seek to prohibit the respondent circuit judge from exercising jurisdiction in a case arising out of a labor dispute.

In the underlying case, the respondent judge issued a preliminary injunction restraining the petitioners' "picket-line" conduct at the request of the respondent coal company...

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