Legal Opinion
Prater v. Ohio Education Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 3, 2007No. 06-4393PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
James Prater and several other retired employees of the Ohio Education Association (“OEA”) claim that OEA improperly terminated their health benefits, which (they say) had become vested and irreducible through a series of collective bargaining agreements. Relying in part on our decision in Maurer v. Joy Technologies, Inc., 212 F.3d 907 (6th Cir.2000), the district court rejected the claims as a matter of law. Because we conclude that Maurer does not apply here, because after-the-fact unilateral summary plan descriptions cannot supercede the amendment provisions in…
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