Legal Opinion
City of Tacoma v. Western Metal Industry Pension Fund
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided May 28, 2025No. 2:24-cv-00099Unknown
1Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 CITY OF TACOMA, CASE NO. 2:24-cv-99 8 Plaintiff, ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR 9 SUMMARY JUDGMENT v. 10 WESTERN METAL INDUSTRY 11 PENSION FUND and its BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 12 Defendants. 13 14 1. INTRODUCTION 15 An employer who withdraws from an underfunded multiemployer pension 16 plan must pay its fair share of the plan’s unfunded liabilities. Congress established 17 this “withdrawal liability” as a fixed debt owed to the pension plan when it passed 18 the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980. See…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. RA Gray & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Nachman Corp. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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