Legal Opinion
O'Connor v. Commonwealth Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 30, 2001No. 00-1798, 00-1799PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to revisit the criteria that bring an early retirement incentive plan within the coverage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 and in scattered sections of Title 26. Appellants O’Connor and Horning, retirees of appellee Commonwealth Gas Company (CGC), appeal from an adverse summary judgment in which the district court held that CGC’s 1997 Personnel Reduction Program (PRP), an early retirement incentive, was an ERISA plan that preempted various state law claims. 1 We…
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