Gun-Toting WV Judge in EQT Royalty Lawsuit Publicly Admonished
Just last week, we told you that a West Virginia Circuit Court judge who allegedly waved and pointed a gun at an attorney for EQT Corporation during a hearing about a case brought against EQT by landowners for improper deductions of post-production expenses from their royalty payments had resigned (see Gun-Toting Judge in Landowner/EQT Royalty Lawsuit Resigns). We now know why. The WV Judicial Investigation Commission (JIC) has publicly admonished the judge. He cannot, as part of an agreement with the JIC, serve as a judge in WV again.
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