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CANEY CREEK COAL CO. v. SATTERFIELD

No. 96-4246.

150 F.3d 568 (1998)

CANEY CREEK COAL COMPANY; Old Republic Insurance Companies, Petitioners, v. Alma SATTERFIELD; Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Metcoff Klaus (argued and briefed), Arter & Hadden, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Ronald K. Bruce, Greeneville, KY, for Respondent.

Christian P. Barber (argued and briefed), U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, for Respondent.

Before: NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

When Congress established a system in which a federal trust fund paid for certain claims filed by pneumoconiosis-disabled coal miners, and mine operators and their insurance carriers paid for others, litigation was certain to follow. And follow it has. See, e.g., Lovilia Coal Co. v. Harvey, 109 F.3d 445 (8th Cir.1997); Helen Mining Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation...

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