signatory operator
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 534 U.S. 438 - Barnhart v. Sigmon Coal Co. · 2002Most cited · 1,950 citing opinions
a person which is or was a signatory to a coal wage agreement").
How often courts cite the case defining “signatory operator”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “signatory operator” — 1,928 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.