Legal Opinion
A. T. Massey Coal Co v. Holland
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 19, 2007No. 05-1996, 05-2215PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge SHEDD joined. Judge TRAXLER wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
By enactment of the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (“the Coal Act”), Congress established a new mul-tiemployer benefit plan, the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund (“Combined Fund”), to provide health care benefits to retired coal mine workers. The Combined Fund resulted from the statutorily-mandated merger of the 1950 and 1974 Benefit Plans that had been agreed to, through collective…
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