Legal Opinion
Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Nitehawk Express, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 2000No. 99-2698, 99-2539, 99-2629PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
I) BACKGROUND
In some industries, particularly those where jobs are “episodic,” individual companies do not sponsor pension plans. See LaNGBEIN & Wolk, Pension And Employee Benefit Law 57 (2d ed.). Instead, groups of firms in an industry make pension contributions to a joint, or multiemployer, pension plan. See id.- In 1980, Congress passed the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA). See 29 U.S.C. §§ 1381-1461. The MPPAA was prompted by Congress’s fear that as individual employers withdrew from joint plans without providing funds to cover their workers’…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- United Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Burton SlotkyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- Milwaukee Brewery Workers' Pension Plan v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Teamsters Local No. 579 v. B & M Transit, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
- Trustees of Iron Workers Local 473 Pension Trust v. Allied Products CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Board of Trustees of Teamsters Local 863 Pension Fund v. Foodtown, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2002
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- Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund and Howard McDougall Trustee, Plaintiffs-Appellees/cross-Appellants v. Nitehawk Express, Inc., Six Transfer, Inc., Interstate Express, Inc., Midwest Jobbers Terminals, Inc. And James Lacasse, Defendants-Appellants/cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, and Howard McDougall Trustee v. Bomar National, Inc., an Indiana Corporation, Hi-Way Dispatch, Inc., an Indiana Corporation, and B&m Properties, Inc., an Indiana CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
- Centra, Incorporated v. Central States Southeast and SCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009