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Judge holds Justice family business reps personally responsible in multimillion-dollar dispute
In a case going back more than a decade, a federal judge has ordered representatives of the family business led by Senator Jim Justice to pay the full amount of a $17 million judgement that has had interested compounded at 8% annually.
U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove filed the 33-page order Friday in the Eastern District of Kentucky. The judge also found that the defendants engaged in a persistent pattern of evading legal obligations and ignoring court mandates about the disclosure of financial assets.
The Justice business and its lawyers had wanted the court to vacate sanctions: "Defendants believe that the District Court will agree that, at minimum, they have endeavored to comply with their discovery obligations in this case and that the currently effective sanctions should be vacated," the Justice lawyers wrote in a March 12, 2025, motion.