Judge Denies 2nd Motion To Nix Plaintiff Attorney In Abandoned Wells Case

Mealey's ( February 27, 2023, 2:08 PM EST) -- WHEELING, W.Va. — A federal judge in West Virginia denied a hydraulic fracturing company’s second attempt to disqualify the counsel for landowners in a dispute over abandoned wells, ruling that there is no ethical violation on the part of the fracking operator’s former employee Bryan “Wayne” Bowman II or the plaintiffs’ counsel because during his employment he did not serve in any official capacity in its in-house legal department....

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