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Without A Leggett To Stand On: Arguing For Retroactive Application Of West Virginia's Amended Flat-Rate Well Statute, Adam H. Wilson
Without A Leggett To Stand On: Arguing For Retroactive Application Of West Virginia's Amended Flat-Rate Well Statute, Adam H. Wilson
West Virginia Law Review
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Caperton V. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: A Ten-Year Retrospective On Its Impact On Law And The Judiciary, Amam Mcleod
Caperton V. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: A Ten-Year Retrospective On Its Impact On Law And The Judiciary, Amam Mcleod
West Virginia Law Review
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Standard Oil, Consolidated Coal, And The Roots Of The Resource Curse In West Virginia, Alison Peck
Standard Oil, Consolidated Coal, And The Roots Of The Resource Curse In West Virginia, Alison Peck
West Virginia Law Review
Despite its natural resource wealth, West Virginia today ranks last among all states in its residents’ overall sense of well-being, a puzzle that economists call “the resource curse.” Much of West Virginia’s wealth, in the form of coal, oil, and gas, left the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before the state could tax it. This discouraging story was not inevitable. In 1905, a Morgantown lawyer named George C. Baker led an effort to tax coal, oil, and gas leases as personal property that nearly succeeded. Baker and his allies, Governor William M.O. Dawson and Tax Commissioner …