Legal Opinion
Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. Central States Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 23, 1992No. D.C. Civil No. 84-05737; D.C. Civil No. 91-04423; No. 92-1345PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., sought to obviate, under the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 (“DEFRA”), its withdrawal liability to its multiemployer pension plan when it ceased production at its St. Louis Plant in 1980. In order to seek the benefits of DEFRA, the company must show that (1) it had a binding agreement to withdraw from a multiemployer plan as of September 26, 1980 and (2) that it effectuated a complete withdrawal from the plan by December 31, 1980.
In this appeal we must interpret the term, a “binding agreement to withdraw,” within the meaning of Section…
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