William Paluda v. ThyssenKrupp Budd Company

RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs William Paluda and Robert Hall appeal from the district court’s decision denying plaintiffs renewed motion for remand to state court and granting the defendant ThyssenKrupp Budd Company’s motion to dismiss the complaint. Both decisions rest on the district court’s determination that the plaintiffs’ state-law age discrimination claims were preempted by both § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), 29 U.S.C. § 185, and the Employee Retirement Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a). Concluding that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were…