LEEPER v. HAMILTON COUNTY COAL, LLC

No. 19-1109.

939 F.3d 866 (2019)

Carl LEEPER, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HAMILTON COUNTY COAL, LLC, and Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Green , Thomas C. Horscroft , Thomas Paul Rosenfeld , Attorneys, GOLDENBERG, HELLER & ANTOGNOLI, P.C., Edwardsville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Allison Crutcher Cooke , Richard Garrett Griffith , Elizabeth Smith Muyskens , Kif H. Skidmore , Attorneys, STOLL KEENON OGDEN PLLC, Lexington, KY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Ripple, Manion, and Sykes, Circuit Judges.


A group of workers at an Illinois coal mine received some unwelcome news on February 5, 2016. Their employer, Hamilton County Coal, LLC, announced a "temporary layoff" with an expected end date of August 1, 2016. Carl Leeper, a full-time maintenance worker at the mine, responded with this class action under the Worker Adjustment...

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