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Judge denies Peabody Energy’s request to strike protest song

A federal judge in Wyoming says it's tough luck that the world's largest private coal company doesn't dig a 1970s-era protest song. U.S. Magistrate Kelly Rankin in Cheyenne rejected a request by Peabody Energy Corp. to strike lyrics from singer-songwriter John Prine's "Paradise" from a federal lawsuit against the company. Prine's 1971 song criticized Peabody's mining ...

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