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· 3/3/2014

Antelope Coal Co./Rio Tinto Energy America v. Goodin

Citations

  • 743 F.3d 1331
  • 2014 WL 804008
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 3903

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding substantial evidence supported ALJ’s finding that employer failed to rebut presumption that miner suffered from legal pneumoconiosis
  • applying this same regulation to a case that was pending at the time the DOL promulgated the regulation
  • “Even if the x-ray had been more readable and had shown no clinical pneumoconiosis, the ALJ’s determination of legal pneumoconi-osis would stand because legal pneumoco-niosis can be found without evidence of clinical pneumoconiosis.”
  • declining to address the operator’s ultra vires argument
  • discussing rule-out standard for miner claims

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Judges: Kelly, McKay, Matheson

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