Article: Eastern Kentucky Coal Mine to Comply with Court Ruling, Letter Says.

Article: Mine ruling under fire: Federal judges appear ready to overturn ...
Charleston Gazette;  December 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... That permit, for a company called Beech Fork Processing, would have buried more than ... streams. After Haden's ruling, Beech Fork revealed that it could mine its coal ... his ruling, Haden did not block the Beech Fork mine because the company had backed off ...

Article: Valley fill ruling: ; Judge Haden did his duty
Charleston Gazette;  October 27, 1999 ;     628 words ... ... it is disappointing and unfair that Judge Haden himself has been made the target of ... publicly defend his own integrity, Judge Haden must weather the storm in silence ... and the high stakes of the case before Judge Haden have provoked great public interest ...

Article: What I learned from Judge Haden
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  March 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... registration to Independent by that time). Judge Haden had ruled for the coal industry before ... So I tried to find out more about Judge Haden, and about his connections - if any ... was never much reason to do so. If Judge Haden had ties to the coal industry, or had ...

Article: He said what a native son should, Judge Haden ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  March 25, 2004 ;     683 words ... ... survive without mining. Neither was Judge Haden. All he said in that famous decision ... and small buried forever. Had I been Judge Haden, I probably would have stormed around ... happens, nothing will cover up what Judge Haden, a native son, tried to do to save ...

Article: Mining law means what it says, Judge Haden's ruling ...
Charleston Gazette;  October 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... blasted rock that used to be a mountain - that cannot be put back in place when a mine site is reclaimed. I have no doubt that Judge Haden will be viciously attacked, just as he was after a previous ruling went against the industry. But anyone who reads his opinion ...

Article: Judge Haden to preside over latest case in Keystone ...
The State Journal;  July 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ...KEYSTONE - The federal judge who is perhaps best known for his controversial decisions related to mountaintop mining will preside in the federal criminal case against a South Carolina woman who is charged with bamboozling family members of a convicted bank swindler and allegedly making off with

Article: Judge Haden won't force OSM's hand on mine rules
Charleston Gazette;  March 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ...kward@wvgazette.com Chief U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II on Tuesday again gave federal regulators more time to clean up problems in the state's enforcement of strip mining rules. Haden declined to immediately order the U.S. Office of Surface Mining to begin to take over the state's