Flickinger v. EI Du Pont De Nemours and Co.

OPINION

JONES, Chief Judge.

In this case former employees of the defendant E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (“DuPont”), claim that DuPont’s sale of its textile manufacturing business interfered with their federally-protected retirement benefits and discriminated against them on account of age. Based on the summary judgment record, I find that DuPont is entitled to judgment in its favor.

I

This action was brought by sixty-nine individual plaintiffs and their collective bargaining agent, United Workers, Inc. (the “Union”) under § 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974…