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IN RE WESTMORELAND COAL CO.

Civ.A. No. 97-K-2589, Bankruptcy No. 96-26092 MSK

221 B.R. 512 (1998)

In re WESTMORELAND COAL COMPANY, et al., Debtors. TRUSTEES OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA COMBINED BENEFIT FUND, Movants, v. WESTMORELAND COAL COMPANY, Westmoreland Coal Sales Company, Inc., Westmoreland Energy, Inc., Westmoreland Resources, Inc., Westmoreland Terminal Company, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

June 1, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Greenfield, Lee R. Bogdanoff, Stutman, Treister & Glatt, Los Angeles, CA, Craig A. Christensen, Lindquist, Vennum & Christensen, Thomas C. Seawell, Caroline C. Fuller, Fairfield & Woods, Denver, CO, Thomas P. Gies, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for Debtors.

Gary M. Ford, Lincoln Weed, Groom & Nordberg, Chartered, David W. Allen, Brian H. Benjet, UMWA Health & Retirement Funds, Washington, DC, Paul D. Rubner, Joan B. Burleson, Rubner & Kutner, P.C., Denver, CO, for Movants.

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO WITHDRAW REFERENCE

KANE, District Judge.

On October 31, 1997, the Trustees of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Combined Benefit Fund (the "Fund") filed a motion in bankruptcy court seeking an order requiring the debtors in these cases (hereafter "Westmoreland") to pay statutory premiums they assert were required by the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (the "Coal Act"), codified in relevant part at 26 U.S.C...

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