Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. International Ass'n of MacHinists & Aerospace Workers

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Crown Cork and Seal Company appeals from the District Court’s orders dismissing Crown’s declaratory judgment claims brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) and granting summary judgment to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM or the Union) on its counterclaim seeking to compel arbitration under LMRA. We reverse the summary judgment and dismiss the remaining issues on appeal.

In 1990, Crown, a manufacturer of packaging materials, acquired the metal division of…