Legal Opinion
Brown v. Astro Holdings, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 29, 2005No. Civ.A. 04-5031PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
In this suit, the trustees of a multi-employer pension plan seek to recover ERISA withdrawal liability from several corporate affiliates and individual owners of a bankrupt shipping company. The plaintiffs allege that the corporate affiliates are liable as “alter egos” of the original company and that the individual owners are liable under a piereing-the-corporate-veil theory. 1
The defendants have moved to dismiss on the ground that ERISA does not permit liability to be imposed under either an alter ego or a veil piercing theory. This appears to…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Mertens v. Hewitt AssociatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. KnudsonSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Webster v. FallSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Bay Area Laundry & Dry Cleaning Pension Trust Fund v. Ferbar Corp. of California, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1997
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- Board of Trustees v. Palladium Equity Partners, LLCDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2010
- N.J. Bldg. Laborers' Statewide Pension Fund & Trs. Thereof v. Richard A. Pulaski Constr.District Court, D. New Jersey · 2018
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