Legal Opinion
Pens. Plan Guide (Cch) P 23952g Sandra Ames v. American National Can Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 28, 1999No. 97-4055PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
In 1995, American National Can Company (“ANC”) decided to sell its Food Metal & Specialties Division (“Food Metal”) to Silgan Containers Corporation (“Silgan”). This case concerns the benefits to which certain salaried employees of Food Metal believed they were entitled as a result of that event under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. ANC saw things differently, and so the employees sued, alleging claims for severance pay, pension benefits, and damages for a violation of the ERISA ban on interfering with protected…
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