Legal Opinion
Beck v. Pace International Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 2007No. 05-1448PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
We decide in this case whether an employer that sponsors and administers a single-employer defined-benefit pension plan has a fiduciary obligation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq., to consider a merger with a multiemployer plan as a method of terminating the plan.
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Crown Paper and its parent entity, Crown Vantage (the two hereinafter referred to in the singular as Crown), employed 2,600 persons in seven paper mills. PACE International Union, a respondent here, represented employees covered by 17 of Crown’s…
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