Legal Opinion
United States v. Thermon Phillips, E.B. Rich, Usx Corporation A/K/A United States Steel Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 10, 1994No. 90-7721PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
This case involves a steel producer’s payment of kickbacks, in the form of illegal pension payments, to union officials, in violation of the Labor Management Relations (“Taft-Hartley”) Act § 302, 29 U.S.C. § 186 (1988), and its failure to notify the employee pension plan’s participants that the plan had been amended to provide for such payments, as required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) §§ 101, 102, 104, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1021, 1022, 1024 (1988). A jury found that the steel producer and the union officials, by arranging for the pension payments,…
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