Legal Opinion
The Massachusetts Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund v. Starrett Paving Corp., Peter Starrett
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 26, 1988No. 87-1806PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
Four multiemployer pension plans (“the Plans”), invoking the legal authority of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1982), sued the Starrett Paving Corporation and its owner, Peter Starrett, seeking contributions the corporation had promised, but failed, to make. 29 U.S.C. § 1145. The corporation went bankrupt; the district court said that Peter Starrett, the corporation’s president and sole shareholder, must himself make the payments. Peter Star-rett now appeals, claiming (among other things) that, even assuming ERISA requires…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Goldberg v. Whitaker House Cooperative, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Donovan v. AgnewCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
- Laborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Advanced Lightweight Concrete Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Falk v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by58 opinions
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