Legal Opinion
Bay Area Laundry & Dry Cleaning Pension Trust Fund v. Ferbar Corp. of California, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 15, 1997No. 96-370PublishedCited by 535 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA), 94 Stat. 1208, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1381-1461, requires employers who withdraw from underfunded multiemployer pension plans to pay a “withdrawal liability.” An employer may discharge that obligation by making a series of periodic payments according to a postwithdrawal schedule set by the pension fund’s trustees, or it may prepay the entire debt at any time. We resolve in this case a statute of limitations issue concerning this legislation, specifically: When does the MPPAA’s six-year statute of limitations begin to run on a pension fund’s…
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