Legal Opinion
Plumber, Steamfitter & Shipfitter Industry Pension Plan & Trust v. Siemens Building Technologies Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 3, 2000No. 99-35758PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal probes the legal question whether a collective bargaining agreement covers certain employees, and the fact question whether the trustees of an ERISA employee benefits plan had a legitimate purpose to audit certain payroll records of the Appellant employer’s operations, as the trustees claim, or were being used by a trade union, as the employer claims, to increase union membership by establishing that union work was being performed by nonunion employees.
The trial court took testimony and examined documents and concluded that the collective bargaining…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Russian River Watershed Protection Committee Brenda Adelman v. City of Santa RosaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998
- Rosalyn BROOKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DESERT HOSPITAL CORP., Defendant-Appellee, California Medical Association, AmicusCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
- Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California v. Underground Construction Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Koirala v. Thai Airways International, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
3Cited by1 opinion
- Plumber, Steamfitter And Shipfitter Industry Pension Plan & Trust v. Siemens Building Technologies IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000