United States Second Circuit

An employee benefit plan, which is set up and administered using funds from the public school district, is not subject to the provisions of ERISA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2004
• Decided 10/01/2004
• Published 10/01/2004

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, JACOBS, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward R. Hopkins, Smithtown, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hanan B. Kolko, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Donald Hanft, Bruce Lavalle, Cornelius Mahoney, Bruce Meirowitz, Shoreham-Wading River Teachers Association and Jeffrey Wasserman., Andrew Crabtree, Melville, NY (Thomas Schulz, Schulz and Associates, Melville, New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Gloria Adams, J.J. Newman Co., Inc., John Newman, a/k/a Jack Newman, U.S.I. Administrators and U.S.I. Insurance Corp.