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DIRECTOR, ETC. v. BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING CO

Nos. 78-3169, 78-3321, 78-3725 and 79-2185.

598 F.2d 945 (1979)

DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING COMPANY, Employer-Respondent, and Grover C. Frederick, Claimant-Respondent. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. MOSS & McCORMACK MINING COMPANY, and The Drummond Company, Employers-Respondents, and Elmon Bridgemon, Claimant-Respondent. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. Louis A. PALESTINI, Jr., Claimant-Respondent, and United States Steel Corporation, Employer-Respondent. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. MOSS & McCORMACK MINING COMPANY, and The Drummond Company, Employers-Respondents, and Elmon Bridgemon, Claimant-Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carin A. Clauss, Sol. of Labor, U. S. Dept. of Labor, Laurie M. Streeter, Associate Sol., Judith E. Wolf, Co-Counsel for Black Lung Benefits, Belva D. Newsome and Kenneth F. Noto, Attys., Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Charles T. Clark, Birmingham, Ala., for Grover C. Frederick.

Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Harry L. Hopkins, Charles C. Pinckney, Birmingham, Ala., for Black Diamond Coal Co.

Anthony L. Cicio, Birmingham, Ala., for Elmon Bridgemon.

Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, John H. Morrow, Stephen E. Brown, Birmingham, Ala., for Moss & McCormack and Drummond Co.

Trucks, Parsons & Guyton, Fairfield, Ala., for Louis A. Palestini, Jr.

W. H. Woolverton, Jr., Fairfield, Ala., James D. Strader, Gen. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for U. S. Steel Corp.

Before TUTTLE, GODBOLD and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, appeals from decisions of the United States Department of Labor Benefits Review Board holding the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund liable for attorneys' fees incurred by claimants of black lung benefits whose last coal mine employment terminated prior to 1970. The issue is whether such a claimant, his employer or the trust fund is to bear the claimant...

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