Legal Opinion
In Re: Ual Corporation, Debtors. United Retired Pilots Benefit Protection Association v. United Airlines, Inc., Debtors-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 2006No. 05-3121PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In the course of United Airlines’ bankruptcy, the bankruptcy judge, seconded by the district judge, allowed United to eliminate the contractual pension rights of its 3,000 or so retired pilots without a hearing to determine whether they should receive “replacement” benefits (compensation for giving up" those rights), which United had given its active pilots. The association representing the retired pilots has appealed. (The “et al.” parties on both sides of the case can be ignored.) Recently United emerged from bankruptcy, and it argues that this renders the appeal moot.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. LTV Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- In re Abbotts Dairies of Pennsylvania, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1986
- In Re Continental Air Lines, Inc., Debtor. The Institutional Creditors of Continental Air Lines, Inc. v. Continental Air Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- In re Kmart Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
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3Cited by11 opinions
- In re AMR Corp.United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · 2012
- Santiago v. United Air Lines, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2013
- Haake v. TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL GLENBARDAppellate Court of Illinois · 2010
- In Re Ual Corporation, Reorganized Debtors. Appeal Of: United Retired Pilots Benefit Protection AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2006
- In Re UAL Corporation (Pilots' Pension Plan Termination)Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2006
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