A federal judge has stayed an order he’d issued last week approving seizure of a helicopter owned by one of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies to enforce a roughly $13 million judgment against the firm.
Senior U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia James Jones stayed the order Thursday, pending the court’s resolution of motions filed contesting the order.
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