Legal Opinion
Helen Debreceni, Etc. v. Merchants Terminal Corporation and Terminal Refrigeration and Warehousing Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 3, 1989No. 89-1349PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is whether an employer who is withdrawing from a multiemployer pension plan, and who is assessed by the plan a certain sum purportedly representing the employer’s withdrawal liability, must pay that amount forthwith, or whether the employer may refuse to pay pending mandatory arbitration of the amount, if any, it owes.
The suit from which this appeal is taken was brought in the district court under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et. seq. (“ERISA”), as amended by the Multiem-ployer…
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