Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Hawthorne Associates, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 1997No. 95-2078PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
Harry L. Hunt is a retired Eastern Air Lines (“Eastern”) pilot seeking to recover a lump-sum retirement benefit under the Eastern Air Lines Variable Benefit Retirement Plan for Pilots (the “Plan”).1 Eastern, the Plan’s administrator, which is a debtor before the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, has refused to pay the benefit because the Plan has been amended, with the approval of the bankruptcy court, to foreclose the lump-sum benefit Hunt seeks. As the Plan now stands, Hunt is entitled to receive only a modified lump-sum benefit: he may receive a…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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