Legal Opinion
Soft Drink Industry Local Union No. 744 Pension Fund v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 15, 1988No. 87 C 4178PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
GRADY, Chief Judge.
This Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (“ERISA”), case comes before the court on the motion of plaintiff and counter-defendant Soft Drink Industry Local Union No. 744 Pension Fund (“the Fund”) to dismiss the counterclaim of defendant and counter-plaintiff Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago (“Coke”) for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the reasons stated below, the motion to dismiss is denied.
FACTS
Coke entered into a collective bargaining agreement with the…
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