Bruce A. Saunders v. Teamsters Local 639, Employees Pension Trust

Appellants, the trustees of a union pension fund, attack a judgment awarding retirement benefits to appellee, a former employee in the trucking industry. The employee’s application therefor was denied by the trustees on the basis of an amendment to the fund’s eligibility requirements adopted after poor health forced the employee to relinquish his job in the industry. The District Court held that the refusal, without attempted justification, of benefits to an employee who, upon involuntary departure from the industry, satisfied all prerequisites therefor save attainment of age 60 was…