Legal Opinion
Southern Illinois Carpenters Welfare Fund v. Carpenters Welfare Fund of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 22, 2003No. 02-1984, 02-2489PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this ERISA suit are former participants in the welfare plan of the Carpenters Welfare Fund of Illinois, their union, the association of their employers, and the new welfare fund that the union and the employers’ association formed when they broke away from the Carpenters Welfare Fund. The plaintiffs are suing the Fund (and others who need not be discussed separately) for the value of “banked hours” that the union’s members left in the Fund when they broke away in 1994. The district court dismissed the suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and…
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