Pettry v. Patriot Coal Corp. (In re Patriot Coal Corp.)

SALADINO, Bankruptcy Judge.

This is an appeal by certain claimants (“Pettry Claimants”) arising from an order of the bankruptcy court1 filed February 11, 2014, denying a motion for reconsideration of a November 8, 2013, order sustaining the Debtor’s seventeenth omnibus objection to claims. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Factual Background

On March 28, 2002, the Pettry Claimants filed a putative class action against Eastern Associated Coal, LLC, f/k/a Eastern Associated Coal Corporation, and other chemical manufacturers and coal plants in the Circuit Court of Boone County, West Virginia.…