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UMWA HEALTH & RETIREMENT FUNDS v. ROBINSON

No. 81-61.

455 U.S. 562 (1982)

102 S.Ct. 1226

71 L.Ed.2d 419

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA HEALTH & RETIREMENT FUNDS ET AL. v. ROBINSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 8, 1982

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Calvin Golumbic argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was William F. Hanrahan.

Larry F. Sword argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was John M. Rosenberg.*

Gill Deford, Neal S. Dudovitz, and Bruce K. Miller filed a brief for the National Black Lung Association as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves a discrimination between two classes of widows of coal miners who died prior to December 6, 1974 — those whose husbands were receiving pensions when they died and those whose husbands were still working although they were eligible for pensions. The 1974 collective-bargaining agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., increased...

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