Opinion ID: 779444
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Heading: berwind's response to the combined funds beneficiaries' assignments

Text: 30 On September 2, 1993, after the Commissioner made Coal Act assignments to Berwind, Berwind and three co-plaintiffs sued the Secretary of Health and Human Services 10 and the Combined Fund in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Plaintiffs claimed that the Commissioner's Coal Act assignments violated the Takings and Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and against Berwind. That ruling was affirmed on appeal, and the Supreme Court denied certiorari. Templeton Coal Co. v. Shalala, 882 F.Supp. 799 (S.D.Ind.1995), aff'd sub nom., Davon, Inc. v. Shalala, 75 F.3d 1114 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 808, 117 S.Ct. 50, 136 L.Ed.2d 14 (1996) ( Berwind I ). Twenty-two months after certioriari was denied in Berwind I, the Supreme Court decided Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel. 31