Bowing to public pressure, WV appeals court judge seeks recusal from data center case

Bowing to public pressure, WV appeals court judge seeks recusal from data center case

A judge who sparked conflict-of-interest concerns with his connections to a case pressed by community and environmental advocates to challenge a controversial data center project has volunteered to be recused from the case. For weeks, Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia Chief Judge Daniel Greear had resisted calls for him to step away from the case brought to the court by advocacy groups fighting a large data center project planned fo…