Legal Opinion
Teeter v. Supplemental Pension Plan of Consolidated Rail Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 11, 1989No. Civ. A. 87-0027PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
CAHN, District Judge.
Robert L. Teeter has been an employee of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) and its predecessors in interest since April 15, 1949. Although he was entitled to join a forerunner of the defendant pension plan upon initial employment, the plaintiff did not elect membership until May 31, 1956. Plaintiff asserts that the only reason he failed to join the plan immediately was that no one informed him of his eligibility. The defendant grants prior service credit to employees who can show that a late election was caused by such an administrative error. The…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Costello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Claude Wardle, Sr. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension FundCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
- Alabama Power Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- George Wolfe v. J.C. Penney Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
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