Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Westinghouse Hanford Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1993No. Nos. 91-36195, 91-36233PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
This is our second trip through the thicket of pension plans at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (HNR). In Carver v. Westinghouse Hanford Co., 951 F.2d 1083 (9th Cir.1991), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 3036, 120 L.Ed.2d 905 (1992), we considered whether Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC)’s Operating and Engineering Pension Plan (HOEP Plan), adopted after the consolidation of HNR’s operations, improperly failed to recognize prior service for other contractors at HNC. We held that the operative plan was the formal.plan adopted in December 1987, and that ERISA…
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