United States Second Circuit

In a case involving retirement benefits, the Court affirmed an injunction requiring defendants to remedy a reduction in plaintiff's health care benefits because defendant had previously entered into such an agreement in 1976.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/15/2004
• Published 07/15/2004

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge.1, Before:  CALABRESI and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and SCULLIN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William A. Wertheimer, Jr., Special Counsel for Litigation, International Union, UAW (Daniel W. Sherrick, General Counsel, Catherine J. Trafton, Associate General Counsel, Niraj R. Ganatra, Associate General Counsel, on the brief), Detroit, MI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Joseph A. Costello, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA (Richard D. Bernstein, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Hugh C. Carlin, Gross, Shuman, Brizdle & Gilfillan, P.C., Buffalo, NY, for Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants Motor Components, L.L.C. and BAM Enterprises, Inc., John W. Allen, Varnum Riddering Schmidt & Howlett LLP (Joseph J. Vogan, Anthony R. Comden, on the brief), Grand Rapids, MI, for Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants Mark IV Industries, Inc., Arvinmeritor, Inc., and Purolator Products Co.