Legal Opinion
Trustees of the Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund v. MAR-LEN, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 1, 1994No. 93-05066PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
When an employer withdraws from a pension fund and there remain unfunded vested benefits, the employer is promptly required, upon demand by the pension fund, to make interim payments to the fund notwithstanding that it is legally challenging the underlying liability, (“pay now, dispute later”). See Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. (“ERISA”), as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, 29 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq. (“MPPAA”). In this ease, the employer refused to make interim payments to the pension…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Mead Corp. v. TilleySupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- t.i.m.e.-dc, Inc. v. Management-Labor Welfare & Pension Funds, of Local 1730 International Longshoremen's AssociationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
- Helen Debreceni, Etc. v. Merchants Terminal Corporation and Terminal Refrigeration and Warehousing CorporationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Yahn & McDonnell, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Galgay v. Beaverbrook Coal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1997
- Findlay Truck Line, Inc. v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension FundCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2013
- Demesme v. Montgomery County GovernmentDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1999
- Boland v. Wasco, Inc.District Court, District of Columbia · 2014
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