United States Eleventh Circuit

The retroactive reassessment of premiums against coal operators, conducted by the trustees of a benefit fund to provide pension and medical benefits to miners and their dependents, was consistent with the Coal Act, and with the trustees' own precedent in applying it.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2002
• Published 07/12/2002

Judges

• SILER, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and SILER , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David M. Smith,Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.A., Birmingham, AL, Margaret S. Lopez, John R. Woodrum, William I. Althen, Heenen, Althen & Roles, Washington, DC, for Appellants., Sharon Swingle, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Townsen Rich, Michele Lee Svonkin, Stephen J. Pollak, Howard R. Rubin, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC, Patrick K. Nakumura, Nakamura, Quinn & Walls, Birmingham, AL, for Appellees.