DAVON, INC., Templeton Coal Co., Inc., Sherwood-Templeton Coal Co., Inc., Princeton Mining Co., Inc., and Berwind Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Donna E. SHALALA, Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, and its Trustees, Marty D. Hudson, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued November 3, 1995.
Decided January 25, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Louis F. Britton, Cox, Zwerner, Gambill & Sullivan, Terre Haute, IN, John W. Fischer (argued), Denlinger, Rosenthal & Greenberg, Cincinnati, OH, for Davon, Inc.
Jill E. Zengler, Office of the United States Attorney, Indianapolis, IN, Donna Morros Weinstein, Department of Health and Human Services, Region V, Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL, Douglas Letter, Scott R. McIntosh (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Gretchen E. Jacobs, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Donna E. Shalala.
Frederick W. Dennerline, III, Edward J. Fillenwarth, Jr., Fillenwarth, Dennerline, Groth & Towe, Indianapolis, IN, Peter Buscemi (argued), Dean C. Berry, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, DC, John R. Mooney, Elizabeth A. Saindon, Edward M. Gleason, Jr., Beins, Axelrod, Osborne, Mooney & Greene, Washington, DC, for United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund.
David H. Goeller, Wilkinson, Goeller, Modesitt, Wilkinson & Drummy, Terre Haute, IN, Rosemary M. Collyer, J. Michael Klise, Michael A. Bazany, Jr., Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, Jesse H. Choper (argued), University of California, Berkeley, CA, for Templeton Coal Co., Inc., Sherwood-Templeton Coal Co., Inc., Princeton Mining Co., Inc., and Berwind Corp.
Edward J. Fillenwarth, Jr., Fillenwarth, Dennerline, Groth & Towe, Indianapolis, IN, (argued), Peter Buscemi Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, DC, John R. Mooney, Elizabeth A. Saindon, Edward M. Gleason, Jr., Beins, Axelrod, Osborne, Mooney & Greene, Washington, DC, for Marty D. Hudson, Michael Holland, Elliot A. Segal, Thomas O.S. Rand, Carlton R. Sickles, Gail R. Willensky, and William P. Hobgood.
Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY and KANNE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
This case involves challenges to the constitutionality of the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992, 26 U.S.C. §§ 9701 et seq. ("Coal Act"). Congress enacted the Coal Act to guarantee that retired coal miners and their families would receive health benefits for life. The Act was passed in response to a financial crisis that threatened the viability of the existing health benefit arrangement between miners and mining...
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