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C.L. RITTER LUMBER CO. v. CONSOLIDATION COAL CO.

Nos. 01-1286, 01-1287.

283 F.3d 226 (2002)

C.L. RITTER LUMBER COMPANY, INCORPORATED; Coal Mountain Trust; Hurt-Mc Guire Land Trust; James M. McGuire Land Trust; Hugh Macrae Land Trust; Buckhorn Coal Company; Buchanan Coal Company; Sayers Pocahontas Coal Company; Yukon Pocahontas Company; Georgia Pacific Corporation; Garret K. Franks; Linda Schrack, Administrator of the estate of Nermal S. Whited; Sue Snyder, Administrator of the estate of Nermal S. Whited; Mary Russell, Administrator of the estate of Ruth F. Officer; Harvey H. Franks; Vernell Franks; J.C. Franks; Trula S. Franks; John Franks, Administrator of the estate of Estil E. Franks; Dorothy Casteel; Wanda L. Rose; Stuart Rose; Mona Wicks; Freda Meister; Jerry Meister; Earl May; Janie May; Clell Metcalf; Charles R. Arthur; T.J. Bondurant; Margaret Bondurant; Intermont Land Company; Ann Dobrenz, Special Administrator of the estate of Lillian Metcalf; Kelly Wright, Jr., Executor of the estates of Kelly Wright, deceased and Evelyn Wright, deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Levisa Coal Company, Plaintiff, v. CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY; Conoco, Incorporated; Pocahontas Gas Partnership; Appalachian Methane, Incorporated; Appalachian Operators, Incorporated; Buchanan Production Company, Defendants-Appellants. Levisa Coal Company; Helen C. Johnson; Carol Combs Irvin; Frederick H. Combs, II, Trustee for the Marion S. Combs Trust; Martha E. Combs; Virginia Lee Linwick; Carl J. Puckett, Trustee for the W. Kent Pobst Trust; Meredith E. Iqbal; Phillip G. Linwick; Elene M. Combs, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Appalachian Methane, Incorporated; Appalachian Operators, Incorporated; Buchanan Production Company, Defendants-Appellants, and Cardinal States Gathering Company; McNic Oakwood Gathering, Incorporated; McNic CSG Pipeline Company; Consol Inc.; Island Creek Coal Company, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David Wayne Hardymon, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. William R. Rakes, Jeffrey Scott Sexton, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Monica L. Taylor, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellees.

Before WILKINS, NIEMEYER, and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINS wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge LUTTIG joined.

OPINION

WILKINS, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals arise from judgments in favor of several coalbed owners (collectively, "Plaintiffs") in an action against multiple energy companies (collectively, "Defendants"). The Defendants contend that the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter these judgments. We affirm.

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