Legal Opinion
Anthony R. Caputo David A. Cook Paul B. Pebbles Duncan B. Robertson v. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 9, 2001No. 2000PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge POOLER concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
This is the latest chapter in the “golden-handshake” extended to certain employees when defendant Pfizer Inc.’s (“Pfizer”) Groton, Connecticut plant (the “Groton Plant”) downsized. We are compelled to interpret the enigmatic — almost chimerical — statute of limitations that applies to actions for breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1113.
Plaintiffs are four senior citizens who worked for Pfizer for many decades. In the late 1980s when…
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