Legal Opinion
Board of Trustees of the Automobile Mechanics' Local No. 701 Union & Industry Pension Fund v. Full Circle Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 2016No. 15-2497PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, a board that administers a multiemployer defined-benefit pension plan sponsored by Mechanics’ Local Union No. 701, filed this suit against a company named Full Circle Group and its subsidiaries seeking to impose withdrawal liability on them (we’ll treat all the companies as a single entity, which we’ll dub FCG).
The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 amended ERISA by imposing liability on employers who withdraw, partially or completely, from participation in an underfunded multiem-ployer pension fund, thereby reducing the fund’s already…
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