United States Ninth Circuit

In an ERISA action for breach of a collective bargaining agreement requiring advertising agencies to make contributions to certain benefit plans for actors, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where ERISA allows employee benefit plans to recover unpaid contributions from an employer who is not a party to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2009
• Decided 07/15/2009
• Published 07/15/2009

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter S. Dickinson, Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson, Glendale, CA, argued the cause for the plaintiffs-appellants and filed the briefs.  Robert A. Bush and Ira L. Gottlieb, Glendale, CA, were on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert S. Gerber, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA, argued the cause for the defendants-appellees and filed the brief.  Matthew W. Holder, San Diego, CA, was on the brief.