Left Fork Mining Company, Inc. v. Irving Hooker

OPINION

BERNICE BOUIE DONALD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court’s dismissal of a claim for money damages brought under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). The district court found that the existence of an alternate remedial scheme created by statute precluded a judicially-created damages remedy in this case: For the reasons stated herein, we AFFIRM.

I

Plaintiffs-Appellants are the owners, operators, and other parties 1 with a financial interest in the Straight Creek underground coal mine in…