Legal Opinion
GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund v. Quad/Graphics, Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided April 19, 2017No. Case No 2:16-cv-03391-ODW (AFMx) [Consol. w/ Case No. 2:16-cv-3418-ODW (AFMx) ]PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AFFIRMING IN PART AND VACATING IN PART ARBITRATION AWARD [22, 23]
OTIS D. WRIGHT, II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
I. INTRODUCTION
This case concerns withdrawal liability under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (“MPPAA”). Quad/Graphics, Inc. (“Quad”) ceased contributing to a mul-tiemployer pension plan called GCIU-Em-ployer Retirement Fund (“Fund”). The MPPAA imposes liability on employers that withdraw from multiemployer pension plans, and thus the Fund calculated Quad’s withdrawal liability and demanded…
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