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PRATER v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA

No. 84-7751.

793 F.2d 1201 (1986)

Claude L. PRATER, LaRue Prater, Bill Prater, Mark Pirkle, Sonja Mast, Robert Mast, Merle Yates, Leon Bowman, Earle Hayes, Calvin Cogburn and Joe Bob Warren, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Oakman Mining Company and Prater Equipment Company, Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICTS 20 AND 23, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, United Mine Workers of America, International Union, Defendant-Appellee, Arnold Miller, Charles Fuller, Tommy Gasten, Jerry McCoy, Robert Webb, Alfred Key, Bobby Meyers, Jackie Carden, Thomas Eugene Cook, Jack E. Robbins, Harold McLaughlin, J.W. Mann, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Ramsey, Parker & Dawson, Birmingham, Ala., Michael E. Avakian, Center on National Labor Policy, Inc., North Springfield, Va., for Prater, et al.

William E. Mitch, Cooper, Mitch & Crawford, Birmingham, Ala., for UMWA, Dist. 20.

Robert H. Stropp, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Earl V. Brown, Jr., Washington, D.C., for UMWA Intern. Union.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

This suit is the result of events that occurred in Alabama during a nationwide coal strike and involving United Mine Workers of America (the International) and its affiliated District 20.

Oakman Mining Company is a non-union coal mining company that was leasing equipment from Prater Equipment Company at the time of the strike. During the strike union miners attempted to prevent non-union coal operations. On January 9, 1978 much of Prater...

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