Legal Opinion
Blau v. Del Monte Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 5, 1984No. 83-2622PublishedCited by 316 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, nonunion salaried employees of Granny Goose Foods, Inc. (“Granny Goose”), appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Del Monte Corporation and others (“Del Monte”), in an action seeking benefits under an employee welfare plan when the employer’s business is sold as an ongoing concern, where the employer has pervasively violated the mandates of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERI-SA”). We conclude that the district court erred in holding that Del Monte’s denial of severance benefits to plaintiffs was not arbitrary…
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