Legal Opinion
Wise v. Ruffin
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1990No. Nos. 89-1794, 89-1798 and 89-1820PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
The primary issue presented for our review in this consolidated appeal concerns the attempted assertion by a multiemployer pension plan against an individual employer withdrawing from the plan of withdrawal liability as computed under the “modified presumptive method,” pursuant to the Mul-tiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq. Specifically, we must determine whether the fact that a plan has no “unfunded vested benefits” as of the year preceding an employer’s decision to withdraw from the plan immunizes the withdrawing employer from such…
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