Legal Opinion

Krumme v. Westpoint Stevens Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided May 1, 1998No. Docket Nos. 97-7312, 97-7384PublishedCited by 110 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal from judgments rendered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Scheindlin, J., in connection with two lawsuits, Allen v. West Point-Pepperell, Inc., 90 Civ. 3841 (S.D.N.Y.), and Krumme v. West Point-Pepperell, 89 Civ. 2016 (S.D.N.Y.). At the heart of this appeal is a dispute among the parties over a pension plan committee’s authority to adopt actuarial assumptions in connection with calculating an accelerated lump sum payment of future accrued retirement benefits. Due to their factual complexity and the…

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