Legal Opinion
Board of Trustees of the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Fund Ex Rel. Ohio Carpenters' Pension Fund v. Bucci (In Re Bucci)
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2007No. 06-4164PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRAHAM, District Judge.
This action presents the question of whether the United States Bankruptcy Code excludes from discharge a debt that an employer owes for failing to contribute to employee benefit funds. Debtor Charles S. Bucci signed a collective bargaining agreement in 2003 requiring his company, Floors by Bucci, Inc., to make monthly contributions to pension and fringe benefit funds. Bucci admits that he failed to contribute to the funds for over a year. In 2005, he filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition.
Appellants, who represent the various funds (the “Funds”), filed an…
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