High Court Won't Take Up Retired Miners' Health Care Fight

By Emily Brill · May 24, 2021, 1:59 PM EDT

The U.S. Supreme Court won't disturb a Fifth Circuit ruling that allowed Westmoreland Coal Co. to stop paying for retired miners' health benefits, declining Monday a petition by the miners' benefit...

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Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al., Petitioners v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al.

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Supreme Court

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January 04, 2021

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