COLLINS v. SEAFARERS PENSION TRUST

No. 87-3593.

846 F.2d 936 (1988)

Raymond W. COLLINS; Eugene Maier; Ted Pieden; John T. Taylor, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Sonat Marine, Inc.; Sonat Marine (Maryland), Inc., and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. SEAFARERS PENSION TRUST; Trustees I-VII, Defendants-Appellees, and Seafarers International Union; Frank Drozak, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Lichtenstein (Scott D. Patterson, Donna F. Winquist, Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, Philadelphia, Pa., Geoffrey S. Tobias, Kevin A. Dunne, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Harriet Ellen Cooperman (Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P.A., Baltimore, Md., Leslie Tarantola, on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, ERVIN, Circuit Judge, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs Raymond W. Collins, John Taylor, Eugene Maier and Ted Pieden sued Seafarers Pension Trust (the Trust) and its Trustees alleging that the enactment of a 1978 amendment of the Trust which provided for the cancellation of past service credits of employees whose employer ceased being a signatory of the Trust, and the application of the amendment to reduce their retirement benefits violated §§ 203 and 302(c)(8) of the...

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