United States Second Circuit

ERISA does not preempt the New York State Department of Labor's use of the annualization formula to enforce state prevailing wage statute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2000
• Decided 09/28/2001
• Published 10/03/2001

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER, Circuit Judge, and HALL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Doren,Bond, Schoeneck & King, LLP (Subhash Viswanathan, on the brief), Buffalo, NY, for Appellant HMI Mechanical Systems, Inc., Stephen A. Pechenik, Pechenik & Curro, P.C., Troy, NY, and Adams, Dayter & Sheehan, LLP, Albany, NY, for Appellants Compensation Programs, Inc. and The CPI Open Shop Plan., Gail Ann Perry, United States Department of Labor (Henry L. Solano, Solicitor of Labor, Allen H. Feldman, Acting Associate Solicitor, Karen L. Handorf, Counsel for Special Litigation, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae U.S. Secretary of Labor., Maurice Baskin, Venable, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Terry R. Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, P.C., Washington, DC;  Robert M. Archer, Michael A. Ciaffa, and Jennifer D. Weekley, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., Mineola, NY;  Patrick E. Brown, Justin E. Driscoll, II, Plunkett & Jaffe, P.C., Albany, NY, for Amici Curiae Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and New York State Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO.


• For Appellees:
  
• Pico Paul Ben-Amotz, Assistant Attorney General, (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General, Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General, M. Patricia Smith, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief) New York, NY, for Appellees.