United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit by a pension fund to recover withdrawal liability from a bankrupt trucking company, summary judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed where a vacation property on which the owners of the trucking company farmed and raised cattle constituted a trade or business for purposes of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/25/2007
• Decided 07/12/2007
• Published 07/12/2007

Judges

• FLAUM, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, CUDAHY, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Franczyk, Jr., Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Timothy C. Reuter (argued), Central States Law Dept., Rosemont, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Scott G. Graham (argued), Howard & Howard, Kalamazoo, MI, for Defendants-Appellants.