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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Volk grants the coal miner's post-trial motion to file a retainer agreement under seal, and the order awarding attorneyfees and expenses in the successful class action brought against the two management and three coal companies for violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The companies failed to provide notice to the full-time employees of the Burke Mountain Mine Complex in McDowell County of an impending lay-off of more than 50 employees in October 2019. The court amends its judgment order to include the language "This judgment applies to the 164 miners to whom Rule 23(c)(2) notice was directed, none of whom has requested exclusion, and whom the Court finds to be members of the certified class in this matter" and reflect a total award of $1,738,743, a statutory fee award of $110,992 and $45,593 in expenses, and $15,000 to the miner as class representative service fee, with an order to file an amended notice of class judgment by April 15. Additionally, the court denies the companies' renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law or in the alternative a new trial.