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STILTNER v. ISLAND CREEK COAL CO.

No. 95-1192.

86 F.3d 337 (1996)

John STILTNER, Petitioner, v. ISLAND CREEK COAL COMPANY; Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 7, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Lawrence Lee Moise, III, Vinyard & Moise, P.C., Abingdon, Virginia, for Petitioner. Douglas Allan Smoot, Jackson & Kelly, Charleston, West Virginia, for Respondents.

Before HAMILTON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON joined. Senior Judge WILLIAMS wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we must decide whether substantial evidence supports the Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) conclusion that the sole cause of John E. Stiltner's total disability was his history of cigarette smoking...

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