after the supreme court reversed the judgment, caperton's attorneys learned that maynard had vacationed in the french riviera with don blankenship, the ceo, chairman, and president of massey energy, and photos of the trip emerged. bruce stanley, a pittsburgh lawyer representing caperton, said "it is beyond the realm of human comprehension that any judge could claim any semblance of impartiality when, before casting the deciding vote in a $76 million case, he accompanies the ceo of the litigant on a luxurious trip to the french riviera."