Legal Opinion
White Oak Coal Company, Inc. v. United Mine Workers of America
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1963No. 14873_1PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by the United Mine Workers of America from a judgment rendered against it in favor of White Oak Coal Company, Inc., in the amount of $185,000 for actual damages, and $125,-000 in punitive damages. The verdict of the jury awarded appellee company punitive damages in the amount of $200,000. On remittitur, this award was reduced to $125,000 for punitive damages, and judgment was entered in the aggregate amount of $310,000.
The suit arose out of claimed destruction through dynamiting by the United Mine Workers of the mining machinery and…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- United Construction Workers v. Laburnum Construction Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Neese v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- United States v. Nicholas A. StironeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1959
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- Kinty v. United Mine Workers of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
- R. P. Price, C. H. Kelly and Follace Fields, Partners, D.B.A. Elkhorn Coal Company v. United Mine Workers of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1964
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