Legal Opinion
Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Burton Slotky
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 24, 1992No. 90-3546PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A multiemployer pension plan (and its trustees, but we can ignore them) sues in this case to enforce withdrawal liability against an individual. The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., require that when an employer withdraws from a multiemployer pension plan governed by ERISA, the plan assess a withdrawal liability against him, 29 U.S.C. § 1396, so that the financial burden of his employees’ vested pension benefits will not be shifted to the other employers in the plan and, ultimately, to the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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