Listed below are Commission cases pending in the Courts of Appeals and
cases that have been decided by the Courts of Appeals from 2003 to present.
April 2, 2008
PENDING
| FMSHRC Decision on Appeal | Party Appealing | Circuit Court Docket Number |
Oral Argument |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed Mining, Inc., PDR denied, 29 FMSHRC 701 (Aug. 2007) (ALJ) |
Speed Mining | 4th Cir. No.07-2090 | May 14, 2008 |
DECIDED
| FMSHRC Decision Appealed | Party Appealing | Circuit Court Docket Number |
Decision Issued |
Result | Reported at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau Mining Corp., 28 FMSHRC 501 (Aug. 2006} |
Plateau Mining | 10th Cir. No. 06-9582 | 3/17/08 | Reversed | --F.3d--,2008 WL 697389 |
| Cumberland Coal Resources, LP, 28 FMSHRC 545 (Aug. 2006) |
Cumberland Coal | 3d Cir. No. 06-4192 | 2/15/08 | Affirmed | 515 F.3d 247 |
| National Cement Co. of California, 27 FMSHRC 721 (Nov. 2005) |
Secretary of Labor | DC Cir. No. 06-1094 | 7/20/07 | Vacated/ Remanded |
494 F.3d 1066 |
| Crimson Stone, PDR denied, 27 FMSHRC 980 (Dec. 2005) (ALJ) |
Crimson Stone | 11th Cir. No. 06-11442 | 9/8/06 | Affirmed | 198 F. App’x 846 |
| Twentymile Coal Co., 27 FMSHRC 260 (Mar. 2005) |
Secretary of Labor | DC Cir. No. 05-1124 | 7/7/06 | Reversed | 456 F.3d 151 |
| Original Sixteen-to-One Mine, PDR denied, 29 FMSHRC 21 (Jan. 2004) (ALJ) |
Original Sixteen | 9th Cir. No. 04-71301 | 3/30/06 | Reversed | 175 F. App’x 825 |
| RAG Cumberland Resources, 26 FMSHRC 639 (Aug. 2004) |
Cumberland Coal | DC Cir. No. 04-1427 | 11/10/05 | Affirmed | 171 F. App’x 852 |
| Cannelton Industries, Inc., 26 FMSHRC 146 (Mar. 2004) |
Secretary of Labor | DC Cir. No. 04-1126 | 7/22/05 | Reversed | 415 F.3d 82 (Spartan Mining Co.) |
| Twentymile Coal Co., 26 FMSHRC 666 (Aug. 2004) |
Secretary of Labor | DC Cir. No. 04-1293 | 6/10/05 | Reversed | 411 F.3d 256 |
| D.A.S. Sand & Gravel, PDR denied 25 FMSHRC 364 (July 2003) (ALJ) |
D.A.S. | 2d Cir. No. 03-40668 | 1/27/05 | Affirmed | 386 F.3d 460, cert. denied 544 U.S. 1048 |
| RAG Shoshone Coal Corp., 26 FMSHRC 75 (Feb. 2004) |
United Mine Workers of America |
D.C. Cir. No. 04-1075 | 8/26/04 | Dismissed | Unreported |
| Olson v. Jacobs Ranch Coal Co., PDR denied, 25 FMSHRC 9 (Jan. 2003) (ALJ) |
Olson | 10th Cir. No. 03-9528 | 8/24/04 | Affirmed | 381 F.3d 1007 |
| Ohio Valley Coal Co., PDR denied, 24 FMSHRC 1072 (Dec. 2002) (ALJ) |
Secretary of Labor | D.C. Cir. No. 03-1070 | 2/24/04 | Reversed | 359 F.3d 531 |
| Kinder Morgan Operating, L.P. 23 FMSHRC 1288 (Dec. 2001) |
Kinder Morgan | 6th Cir. No. 02–3052 | 10/10/03 | Affirmed | 78 F. App’x 462 |
| Mountain Top Trucking, Inc., 23 FMSHRC 1230 (Nov. 2001) |
Mountain Top | 6th Cir. No. 01-4356 | 10/1/03 | Affirmed | 77 F. App’x 321 |
| Garcia v. Colorado Lava, Inc., PDR denied, 25 FMSHRC 144 (Mar. 2003) (ALJ) |
Garcia | 10th Cir. No. 03-9562 | 8/7/03 | Dismissed | Unreported |
| Excel Mining, LLC, 23 FMSHRC 600 (June 2001) |
Secretary of Labor | D.C. Cir. No. 01-1335 | 7/8/03 | Reversed | 334 F.3d 1 |
| SOL obo Owens v. Drummond Co., 24 FMSHRC 768 (July 2002) (ALJ) |
Drummond Co. | 11th Cir. No. 02-14394 | 5/9/03 | Affirmed | 67 F. App’x 588 |