HOLLAND v. CLINE BROS. MIN. CO., INC.

Civ. A. No. 3:93-1170.

877 F.Supp. 308 (1995)

Michael H. HOLLAND, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CLINE BROTHERS MINING CO., INC., et al., Defendants, CLINE BROTHERS MINING CO., INC., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. West Virginia, Huntington Division.

February 1, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Jane Pickens, Shari L. Collias, Susan Cannon-Ryan, Caldwell, Cannon-Ryan & Riffee, Charleston, WV, Howard D. Deiner, David W. Allen, Gen. Counsel, Kenneth M. Johnson, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, U.M.W.A. Health & Retirement Funds, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Washington, DC, for Michael H. Holland, Marty D. Hudson, Elliot A. Segal, Paul R. Dean, United Mine Workers of America 1950 Pension Trust, United Mine Workers of America 1974 Pension Trust, Thomas O.S. Rand, William P. Hobgood, Carlton R. Sickles, Gail R. Wilensky, United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund.

David W. Allen, U.M.W.A. Health & Retirement Funds, Washington, DC, Susan Cannon-Ryan, Caldwell, Cannon-Ryan & Riffee, Charleston, WV, Kenneth Johnson, Howard D. Deiner, U.M.W.A. Health & Retirement Funds, Office of the Gen. Counsel, Washington, DC, for Joseph J. Stahl, II.

Erwin L. Conrad, Conrad & Clay, Fayetteville, WV, Dannie B. Fogleman, Coleman, Coxson, Penello, Fogleman & Cowen, P.C., Washington, DC, for Cline Bros. Min. Co., Inc., Lake Energy, Inc.

The Matewan Nat. Bank, pro se.

Thomas K. Fast, Conrad & Clay, Fayetteville, WV, for Kara Coal Co., interested party Lake Energy, Inc., Little Hope Min., Inc.

Leah Q. Griffin, Office of the Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, Workers' Compensation Litigation Unit, Charleston, WV, for State of W.V., Dept. of Commerce, Labor and Environmental Resources, Bureau of Employment Programs, Div. of Workers' Compensation, Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Fund.

Joseph A. Lazell, Office of the Atty. Gen., Nitro, WV, for Div. of Environmental Protection of the W.V. Dept. of Commerce, Labor and Environmental Resources.

Daynus Jividen, Office of Atty. Gen., Charleston, WV, for W.V. Div. of Labor.

C. Terry Owen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Workers' Compensation Litigation Unit, Charleston, WV, for State of W.V., Bureau of Employment Programs, Div. of Workers' Compensation, Office of Employer Accounts.

John R. Mooney, Marilyn L. Baker, Elizabeth A. Saindon, Beins, Axelrod, Osborne, Mooney & Green, Washington, DC, Charles F. Donnelly, Hostler Law Office, Charleston, WV, Robert H. Stropp, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Intern. Union, U.M.W.A., Washington, DC, for United Mine Workers of America, AFL-CIO.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HADEN, Chief Judge.

Pending are Third-Party Defendant United Mine Workers of America, AFL-CIO's ("UMWA") motions to dismiss the third-party complaints. Third-party Plaintiffs Lake Energy, Inc. ("Lake Energy") and Cline Brothers Mining Co., Inc. ("Cline Brothers") have responded, and the UMWA has replied.1 The motion is ripe for adjudication.

I.

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