Legal Opinion
In Re UAL Corporation (Pilots' Pension Plan Termination)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 25, 2006No. 06-1867, 06-2843, 06-2662, 06-2714PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Earlier this year we held that United Airlines and its unionized pilots had reached a valid bargain in which the pilots’ union, in order to improve United’s chance of successful reorganization in bankruptcy, agreed not to oppose its termination of its defined-benefit pension plan. In re UAL Corp. (URPBPA), 443 F.3d 565 (7th Cir.2006) (URPBPA I). In exchange for their acquiescence, the active pilots stood to receive $550 million in convertible notes in the reorganized firm, plus a new defined-contribution pension plan.
This agreement contemplated that United would…
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