Legal Opinion
Pierce County Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Health Trust v. Elks Lodge, B.P.O.E. No. 1450
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1987No. 86-4208PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:
Puyallup Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. No. 1450 (Lodge) appeals an award of delinquent employee benefit contributions to Pierce County Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Health Trust and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Pension Trust (Trusts). The Lodge claims that the district court should have considered extrinsic evidence to interpret the meaning of an ambiguous contract term, and that the action is barred by modification, the statute of limitations, estoppel, and laches. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The Lodge entered into consecutive collective bargaining agreements in…
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