Stevens Engineers & Constructors, Inc. v. Local 17 Iron Workers Pension Fund

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act, part of ERISA, a construction industry employer who withdraws from a multiemployer pension plan owes liability to that plan if the employer conducts work “in the jurisdiction of the collective bargaining agreement of the type for which contributions were previously required.” 29 U.S.C. § 138S(b)(2)(B)(i). In accordance with this provision, the Trustees, of the Iron Workers Local 17 Pension Fund assessed pension liability against Stevens Engineers & Constructors, claiming that Stevens’s activities on a certain…