DIRECTOR, OFF., WKRS.' COMP. v. PEABODY COAL CO.

Nos. 76-1577 and 76-1648.

554 F.2d 310 (1977)

DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY and Old Republic Insurance Company, Respondents. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COAL CORPORATION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Solomons, U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

John L. Kilcullen, Washington, D. C., Thomas Q. Keefe, East St. Louis, Ill., for respondents.

Before PELL and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges, and DILLIN, District Judge.


PELL, Circuit Judge.

In as simple terms as are permitted where the ultimate decisional statement is necessarily dependent upon frequent references to multinumbered and alphabetized statutory provisions, much of these appeals is concerned with the fact that Congress provided for recovery of money by those suffering from black lung disease but in so doing the method of reducing claims to possession was by referring to an entirely different compensation statute which...

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