Experience
Rum Creek Coal Sales, Inc. v. Caperton, 926 F.2d 353 (4th Cir. 1991)
Assisted lead counsel in case against Governor where Fourth Circuit held state trespass statute unconstitutional and preempted. Also assisted in successful claim for attorney fees of $850,000.
District 29, UMWA v. Royal Coal Company, 786 F.2d 588 (4Cir. 1985)
Case involved company's obligation to provide health benefits to retired and disabled miners after expiration of 1981 Wage Agreement when it ceased all active mining and did not execute 1984 Wage Agreement.
Carbon Fuel Co. v. UMWA, 444 U.S. 212 (1979)
Breach of collective bargaining agreement
Hobet Mining v. International UMWA, 877 F.Supp. 1011 (1994)
Setting aside arbitration award and disqualifying arbitrator
Holland v. Kitchekan Fuel Corp., 137 F.Supp.2d, 681 (SDWV 2001)
Pension plan liability case
Hypes v. Cyprus Kanawha Corporation, 40 F.3d 1244 (4th Cir. 1994)
Vacation of arbitration award
In Re: Daltex Corporation v. Paybra Mining Company, 21 F.3d 421 (4th Cir. 1993)
Pension plan case
Muffley v. Spartan Mining Company, 570 F.3d 534, U.S. App. LEXIS 14305; 186 L.R.R.M. 2903; 158 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P10,011 (4th Cir. 2009)
NLRB lawfully delegated power to seek 29 U.S.C.S. § 160(j) injunctions to its General Counsel and usual four-factor equitable test applied to determine if grant of § 106 (j) injunctive relief was just and proper. District court did not abuse its discretion in awarding limited injunctive relief to NLRB, nor in denying NLRB further injunctive relief.
New Beckley Mining Corp. v. UMWA, 946 F.2d 1072 (1991)
RICO case
UMWA 1974 Pension Plan, et al. v. Pittston Coal Company, et al., 984 F.2d 469 (D.C. Cir. 1993)
ERISA case
UMWA v. BethEnergy, 992 F.2d 569 (6th Cir. 1993)
Breach of contract action
UMWA v. RAG American Coal Company, et al., 392 F.3d 1233 (10th Cir. 2004)
ERISA case