Legal Opinion
Burroughs v. Board of Trustees of the Pension Trust Fund for Operating Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1976No. Nos. 75-2897, 75-3289PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This case involves two appeals. One is brought by the Board of Trustees of the Pension Trust Fund for Operating Engineers [hereinafter Trustees] from a judgment of the district court holding that the Trustees acted arbitrarily and capriciously in applying retroactively a break-in-employment rule to plaintiff Burroughs so as to deny him pension benefits. Burroughs ap*1130peals from the district court’s failure to award him attorneys’ fees.
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FACTS
The Pension Trust Fund for Operating Engineers was established pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, dated May 20,…
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