Legal Opinion
Air Line Pilots Ass'n International v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided November 1, 1984No. 84 CV 3357, 84 CV 3361, 84 CV 3362 and 84 CV 3626PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
The unions representing four separate groups of employees 1 at Pan American World Airways, Inc. (“Pan Am”) seek an injunction restraining defendant, Pan Am, from freezing pension benefit accruals in certain employee pension plans. Pan Am, in turn, seeks an injunction against a strike by the Transport Workers Union (“TWU”). 2
During 1984 Pan Am obtained a conditional waiver of its pension funding obligations from the Internal Revenue Service. As a condition to the waiver, the IRS required Pan Am to freeze all pension benefit accruals retroactive to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. BurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad v. United Transportation UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Local 553, Transport Workers Union of America, Afl-Cio v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- DISTRICT 65, UAW v. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1983
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Massey v. United Transportation UnionDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1994
- Kramisen v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 1988
- Transport Workers Union v. Pan AmCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985