Legal Opinion
Stephen Brown, Douglas Shepard, Edward Schweikert, Thomas McCoy and Charles Tomasello v. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 7, 1989No. 88-1387PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case arises under ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. (1982). It concerns the right to severance pay benefits. The district court upheld the defendant employer’s computation and payment of termination allowances under a plan promulgated in December 1985, effective January 1, 1986. The plaintiffs claimed they were entitled to larger allowances under “guidelines” circulated internally to management personnel in 1984. A remand is necessary because the district court reviewed the defendant’s decision under a…
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