Joshua Barrett

Education - J.D., West Virginia University, 1979 - B.A., Wesleyan University, 1971 Practice areas - Personal injury - Commercial litigation - Business litigation - Civil litigation - Complex litigation and class actions Bar admissions - West Virginia - U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia - U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia - U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - U.S. Supreme Court Memberships - West Virginia State Bar - Member, Board of Governors, 2004�2008 - American Bar Association - Member, Litigation Section - Kanawha County Bar Association - American Association for Justice Published works - "Longwall Mining and SMCRA�Unstable Ground for Regulators and Litigants," 94 West Virginia Law Review 693, 1992 - "Citizen Participation in the Regulation of Surface Mining," '81 West Virginia Law Review 625, 1979 - "Valid Existing Rights in SMCRA", 5 Journal of Mineral Law and Policy 585, Co-author, 1990 - "Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahan Revisited: Is the Federal Surface Mining Act a Valid Exercise of the Police Power or an Unconstitutional Taking?," 16 Tulsa Law Journal 418, 1981 - "The Commerce Clause and the Tenth Amendment at Odds: Can the Federal Surface Mining Act Survive National League of Cities?," 8 Northern Kentucky Law Review 107, 1981