Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Peabody Coal Co.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

In as simple terms as are permitted where the ultimate decisional statement is necessarily dependent upon frequent references to multinumbered and alphabetized statutory provisions, much of these appeals is concerned with the fact that Congress provided for recovery of money by those suffering from black lung disease but in so doing the method of reducing claims to possession was by referring to an entirely different compensation statute which itself was amended subsequent to the black lung statutes. While we as the panel to which this case was assigned must accept…