Legal Opinion
Diaz v. Seafarers International Union
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 14, 1994No. 93-1488PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
Domingo Diaz, a retired seaman, brought this lawsuit against the Seafarers International Union and the Union’s Pension Plan. He says that the Plan should have provided him a pension of about $450 per month, rather than about $200 per month. The Plan’s failure to do so, in Diaz’s view, represents an erroneous application of the Plan’s own pension-calculation rules and thereby violates federal law. See Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1)(D) (“[Plan trustees] shall discharge [their] duties ... in accordance with the documents and…
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