Legal Opinion
Edmund H. Belanger v. Wyman-Gordon Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 14, 1995No. 95-1704PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide what constitutes a benefit “plan” for purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1467 (1988). The heart of the appellants’ case is their contention that a series of four early retirement offers extended by their employer over a four-year period constitute an ERISA plan. The district court thought not, and dismissed the suit after a bench trial. We affirm.
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Background
We take the underlying facts principally from the parties’ pretrial stipulations.
Facing an uncertain economic future,…
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