Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of West Virginia are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Philadelphia
900 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-4292
Email: philadelphia.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/philadelphia/finding-aids
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
Bowman, Forest J. "The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia." West Virginia Law Review 109, no. 3 (Spring 2007): 725-829.