Legal Opinion
Lawrence Schwartz, James A. Schultz and William Gallagher, Plaintiffs v. Newsweek, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 2, 1987No. 1137, Docket 87-7030PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, former employees of Newsweek, Inc., brought this action to challenge Newsweek’s failure to grant them severance benefits when they separated from Newsweek and accepted employment with a successor publisher. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Newsweek, 653 F.Supp. 384. We affirm on the ground that Newsweek’s decision was neither arbitrary nor capricious and therefore did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1982).
The following facts are undisputed. In 1980, Newsweek, Inc. began…
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