Legal Opinion
Coleman Ex Rel. Estate of Coleman v. Champion International Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 1, 1993No. 92-4527PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
I. FACTS and BACKGROUND
This case, a suit for pension benefits, is controlled by ERISA. Tony Coleman (“Coleman”) brought suit to the recover proceeds of a pension plan, asserting that he was the beneficiary of Charlie Coleman. Charlie Coleman, Coleman’s father, worked at South-land Paper Mill, Inc. (“Southland”) from 1964 to 1978. St. Regis Paper Co. (“St. Regis”) acquired Southland through merger in December 1977, and Champion International Corp. (“Champion”), in turn acquired St. Re-gis through merger in 1984.
Southland established a pension plan for its employees on…
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