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Pens. Plan Guide (Cch) P 23944s Gary Anderson v. International Union, United Plant Guard Workers of America
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1998No. 97-1120PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, three former officers of defendant, The International Union, United Plant Guard Workers of America, were promised early retirement by the union president and the union’s Executive Board and they contest the union’s subsequent denial of early retirement benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. We conclude that the union president and Executive Board may have had “apparent authority” to bind the union under standard agency principles. We therefore reverse the district court’s summary judgment for defendants…
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