A.J. Taft Coal, Inc. v. Connors

COX, Circuit Judge:

This case involves two declaratory judgment actions which were consolidated for trial in the Northern District of Alabama. The first action, filed in January 1986 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, was brought by the Trustees of the United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Funds (the “Funds”) against two Alabama coal producers, Drummond Coal Company and Alabama By-Products Corporation, and one Kentucky producer, Island Creek Coal Company. Pursuant to a collectively bargained agreement, these and other signatory coal producers agreed to…