MHC v. INTERN. UNION, UNITED MINE WKRS. OF AMERICA

Civ. A. No. 85-296.

685 F.Supp. 1370 (1988)

MHC, INC. and Samoyed Energy Company, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants/Third Party Plaintiffs, v. MHC, INC., Samoyed Energy Company, Inc., et al., Third Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, at Pikeville.

March 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest H. Roles, Anna M. Norton, Smith, Heenan & Althen, Charleston, W.Va., William I. Althen, Smith, Heenan & Althen, Washington, D.C., Donald H. Combs, Combs & Combs, PSC, Pikeville, Ky., Shelby C. Kinkead, Jr., Bulleit, Kinkead, Irvin & Reinhardt, Lexington, Ky., for plaintiffs.

Sherry Brashear, Goss, Chappel & Brashear, Harlan, Ky., for Donald Tackett.

Earl Brown, Washington, D.C., Michael J. Passino, Jane P. North, Nashville, Tenn., Michael Holland, United Mine Workers of America, Washington, D.C., for Intern. Union, UMWA, Local 2496, UMWA.

James R. Hampton, Hazard, Ky., for Intern. UMWA, Local 2496, James Scott and Donnie Thornsbury.

Bernard Pafunda, Pikeville, Ky., for Dist. 30, UMWA, Ernie Justice.

Eugene Goss, Mark David Goss, Goss, Chappel & Brashear, Harlan, Ky., for Local 2496, UMWA.

Marcia Milby Ridings, Hamm, Milby & Ridings, London, Ky., W. David Kiser, Ackerson, Ackerson, Blandford & Kiser, Louisville, Ky., for third party defendant Storm Sec. Systems, Inc.

John A. West, Patrick A. Nepute, Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, Lexington, Ky., Richard S. Cleary, Janet P. Jakubowicz, Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, Louisville, Ky., for third party defendants Ashland Coal, Inc. and P.C. Holding, Inc.

Forrest H. Roles, Mark A. Carter, Smith, Heenan & Althen, Charleston, W.Va., Donald H. Combs, Pikeville, Ky., for third party defendants, Charles Carlton, William J. Higginbotham Clifford Ed Marenko, William Joseph Gwinn Keith Andrew Elkins.

Grover C. Potts, Jr., Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Ky., George J. Miller, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Lexington, Ky., for Sharondale Corp.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILHOIT, District Judge.

This matter is presently before the Court on numerous motions for dismissal or, in the alternative for summary judgment. The plaintiffs, two coal companies, have instituted this action pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1964(c), the so-called civil RICO action, alleging a conspiracy to deprive them of property rights through illegal picketing and acts of violence constituting felonies and that such activities...

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