Dorn's Transportation, Inc. v. Teamsters Pension Trust Fund & Vicinity

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

Introduction

This case arises out of a demand by defendant Teamsters Pension Trust Fund of Philadelphia and Vicinity (Teamsters Fund) for payment by Dorn’s — now Oneida’s wholly-owned subsidiary — of $315,516 which the Teamsters Fund claims as “withdrawal liability” due under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, 29 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq. (MPPAA).

Dorn’s and Oneida now seek summary judgment on two alternative grounds: (1) that the undisputed facts show that there has been no “withdrawal” from the Teamsters Fund such as to create a statutory basis for…