A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down gag and sealing orders that restricted public access to information in the criminal case against former coal executive Donald Blankenship.
Blankenship, former chief executive officer of Massey Energy Company, was charged last year in a conspiracy that alleges he knew about, and caused, federal mine safety violations at the company’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. An explosion there in April 2010 killed dozens of miners.
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