United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit for disability benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act, recovery is precluded where plaintiff-coal miner was forced to stop working due to his blindness, not black lung disease.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2005
• Published 02/08/2005

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick Turner, Jr., Golconda, IL, for Petitioner., Thomas O. Shepherd, Jr., Washington, DC, Benefits Review Board., Evalene Gulley, Harrisburg, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laura M. Klaus, Greenberg Traurig, Michelle S. Gerdano, Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, for Respondents.