Legal Opinion
McDonald v. Pension Plan of NYSA-ILA Pension Trust Fund
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 10, 2003No. Docket Nos. 01-9226, 01-9316PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge.
James McDonald worked as a longshoreman intermittently from 1953 until his retirement in 1991, after which he received a lifetime pension. Believing his pension calculations failed to reflect 13 year's during which he had accrued benefits, he sued the Pension Plan of the NYSA-ILA Pension Trust Fund and its Trustees (collectively, the “PTF”), principally challenging a Plan provision that permitted the PTF to disregard years of service rendered prior to a break in service that occurred before the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974…
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