Legal Opinion
George Kwatcher v. Massachusetts Service Employees Pension Fund
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 5, 1989No. 88-1930PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This dispute requires us to construe certain provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, which, over time, have proven less than transparently clear. Immersion in the ammonia of appellate analysis dispels much of the fog, however, and makes the interplay of these provisions, and their import, easier to visualize. Reflecting what we believe to be Congress’s manifest intent, we affirm the principal holding below. At the same time, we remand so that the district court may undertake certain further proceedings.
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