No recusal for the 3.5 Million Dollar Man

From AP:

Benjamin Declines to Withdraw From $240M Massey Case

CHARLESTON -- Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin on Thursday rejected the
latest bid seeking his recusal from a case involving Massey Energy Co. over the
millions the coal producer's chief executive spent to help Benjamin get elected
in 2004.

Benjamin decided to stay on Massey's appeal of a $240 million judgment
against it in Brooke County that Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. and Mountain
State Carbon LLC. won in a coal contract dispute.

In turning down the plaintiffs' request, Benjamin cited his previous
refusals to disqualify himself from another pending appeal.

"I would further observe that inaccuracies and innuendo do not serve as a
proper basis for seeking the disqualification of a judicial office," Benjamin
wrote in his reply.