United States Second Circuit
FLANIGAN v. GEN. ELEC. CO., 00-7569(L), 00-7570(CON)
Under 29 USC 1104(a)(1), an acquiring company owes no fiduciary duty to employees that left the acquired company before the acquisition.
Appellate Information
- Argued 12/04/2000
- Decided 03/26/2001
- Published 03/26/2001
Judges
- Before KEARSE, WINTER, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Alan M. Sandals,Sandals, Langer & Taylor, LLP, (Kay E. Sickles, Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Dennis Faucher, Miller, Faucher Cafferty & Wexler, Philadelphia, PA, of counsel, J. Daniel Sagarin and Elias A. Alexiades, Hurwitz & Sagarin, P.C., Milford, CT, of counsel, David S. Preminger, Rosen, Preminger & Bloom, New York, NY, of counsel, Jules L. Smith, Blitman & King, Rochester, NY, of counsel, Francis J. Robinson, Newtown Square, PA, of counsel, Ronald H. Surkin, Richard, Di Santi, Hamilton & Gallagher, P.C., Media, PA, of counsel ), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Patrick W. Shea, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Stamford, CT, (Jennifer M. Bologna, Dale F. Frey, Michael J. Cosgrove, John H. Meyers, Joel R. Wilson, Arthur S. Bahr, Alan M. Lewis, Eugene K. Bolton, and Donald W. Torey, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees, General Electric Co., Dale F. Frey, Michael J. Cosgrove, John H. Myers, Joel R. Wilson, Arthur S. Bahr, Alan M. Lewis, Eugene K. Bolton and Donald W. Torey., Paul J. Ondrasik, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, (Morgan D. Hodgson, Sara E. Hauptfuehrer, of counsel ), for Defendant-Appellee Lockheed Martin Corp.