Morrissey v. Curran

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiffs, three members of the National Maritime Union of America (“NMU”), instituted this action in February, 1969, against defendants Curran and Wall, elected officers of the NMU, Perry, a former employee of NMU and Assistant to the President, and Segal, Freedman and Karchmer, Trustees of the NMU Officers Pension Plan (“the Pension Plan”). The complaint alleged that the Pension Plan had been amended in 1961 so as to include as participants designated employees of the NMU who were not elected officers of the NMU (“non-officers”), in violation of NMU’s constitution then in effect,…