NATIONAL COAL ASS'N v. CHATER

No. 95-6781.

81 F.3d 1077 (1996)

NATIONAL COAL ASSOCIATION, Alabama Land and Mineral Corporation, Allied Signal, Inc., Berwind Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Costain Coal, Inc., LTV Steel Company, Mountain Laurel Resources Company, The Pittston Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Frank, U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services, Jeffrey Clair, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ.Div., Washington, DC, for appellant.

Willis J. Goldsmith, Jones Day Reavis & Poge, Washington, DC, John R. Woodrum, Ronald E. Meisburg, Jennifer L. Kim, Smith Heenan & Althen, Washington, DC, for appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, COX, Circuit Judge, and CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The Commissioner of Social Security appeals from a grant of summary judgment for the plaintiffs, requiring her to recompute premiums paid by coal operators under a federal statute that creates a benefits plan for mine workers. The sole issue in this appeal is the meaning of the word "reimbursements" as used in the statutory formula for calculating health benefit premiums. We affirm the district court.

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