Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co.

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Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 8, 2002 Decided January 15, 2003
Full case name: Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security, Petitioner v. Peabody Coal Company, et al.; Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security, Petitioner v. Bellaire Corporation, et al.; Michael H. Holland, et al., Petitioners v. Bellaire Corporation, et al. Citations: 537 U.S. 149; 123 S. Ct. 748; 154 L. Ed. 2d 653; 2003 U.S. LEXIS 752; 71 U.S.L.W. 4041; 29 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2089; 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Service 419; 2003 Daily Journal DAR 501; 16 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 35 Prior history: On writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Peabody Coal Co. v. Massanari, 14 Fed. Appx. 393, 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 14471 (2001). Bellaire Corp. v. Massanari, 14 Fed. Appx. 424, 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 14784 (2001)
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority by: Souter Joined by: Rehnquist, Stevens, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer Dissent by: Scalia Joined by: O'Connor, Thomas Dissent by: Thomas
Laws applied
The Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (26 U.S.C. § 9706(a))

Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co., 537 U.S. 149 (2003)^[1], was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held ...

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1. ^ 537 U.S. 149 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.