Court Opinion

ID: 9813219
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:58:37.427328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:28:10.068567
License: Public Domain

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part in the judgment and dissenting in part:
I would find that the assignments of liability for coal workers’ pensions to A.T. Massey Coal Company, Inc., Massey Coal Services, Inc., and Peerless Eagle Coal Company are unconstitutional by virtue of the Supreme Court’s holding in Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, 524 U.S. 498, 118 S.Ct. 2131, 141 L.Ed.2d 451 (1998). With respect to those assignments, I would reverse. Otherwise, I concur in the judgment.