Legal Opinion
United Mine Workers of America Health & Retirement Funds v. Robinson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 8, 1982No. 81-61PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
This case involves a discrimination between two classes of widows of coal miners who died prior to December 6, 1974— those whose husbands were receiving pensions when they died and those whose husbands were still working although they were eligible for pensions. The 1974 collective-bargaining agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc., increased the health benefits for widows in the former class but made no increase for those in the latter class. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that…
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