Legal Opinion
Peabody Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 1999No. 97-3721PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Peabody Coal challenges the award of black lung benefits in a typically protracted case that began when Ronald Durbin applied for benefits in 1975 (shortly after he had retired following a heart attack) and that has outlived him. We can skip over the intermediate proceedings and come directly to the administrative law judge’s opinion of June 1994, awarding the benefits to Durbin’s widow. The administrative law judge invoked the invalid “true doubt” rule, Director v. Greenwich Collieries, 512 U.S. 267, 114 S.Ct. 2251, 129 L.Ed.2d 221 (1994); Freeman United Coal Mining Co.…
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