CIC-TOC Pension Plan v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

JANICE M. STEWART, United States Magistrate Judge.

INTRODUCTION

On May 20, 2009, Weyerhaeuser Company (“Weyerhaeuser”) closed a trucking facility in Albany, Oregon (“Albany facility”). This case involves a dispute over whether, as a result of that closure, Weyerhaeuser owes over $5.5 million to the CIC-TOC Pension Plan (“Plan” or “Fund”) under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (“MPPAA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1381-1461.

In 1974, Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), a pension plan termination insurance program through which the…