It’s the kind of case that has an attorney up at 3 a.m. pondering the next play or just the seeming injustice of it all. And for two Reed Smith attorneys, the case has been going on for upward of 15 years.
The book has already been written on Bruce Stanley and David Fawcett III’s crusade on behalf of client Hugh Capertonin fact, it came out Tuesday. But the case in some ways was just brought back to the beginning with a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that breathed new life into Caperton’s case against Massey Energy and set the stage for yet another trial in West Virginia.
