Legal Opinion
Crawford v. TRW Automotive U.S. LLC
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 31, 2009No. 08-1132, 08-1777PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, a class of former TRW Automotive employees, allege that TRW violated the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act by closing the plant where they worked to interfere with the vesting of their retirement benefits. The district court disagreed, and granted the company’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm.
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TRW, an indirect subsidiary of TRW Automotive Holdings Corporation, owned and operated the Van Dyke plant where plaintiffs worked. Van Dyke, a 370,000 square foot facility, was part of TRW’s North American Braking and Suspension…
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