United States Fourth Circuit

Fifth Amendment compensation for Coal Act premiums assessed against companies such as plaintiff must include prejudgment interest, and neither the absence of an authorizing statute nor ERISA's anti-inurement provision bars such an award.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2000
• Decided 12/19/2000
• Published 12/19/2000

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Patrick Michael McSweeney, McSweeney, Burtch & Crump, P.C., Richmond, VA, for Appellant. Peter Buscemi, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  John L. Marshall, Jr., McSweeney, Burtch & Crump, P.C., Richmond, VA, for Appellant.  David W. Allen, Office of the General, UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, John R. Mooney, Mooney, Green, Baker, Gibson & Saindon, P.C., Washington, DC;  Samuel M. Brock, III, Mays & Valentine, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, for Appellees.  John T. Montgomery, Robert Daniel O'Connor, Scott D. Pomfrett, Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, for Amici Curiae.