Henry BUCZYNSKI, Alex Borusovic, and other Retirees similarly situated, Appellees,
v.
The GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant,
State of New Jersey, Intervenor.
Joseph ALESSI, Raymond Buisson, Stephen Michalski, Charles Repka, Helen Vogt and T. Edward White, Appellees,
v.
RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., and Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Employee Retirement Plan, jointly, severally or in the alternative, Appellants,
State of New Jersey, Intervenor.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 8, 1980.
Decided February 15, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Marc C. Gettis (argued), Lester Weiner, Weiner, Staubach, Edelson & Hopmayer, Roselle Park, N. J., for appellees Buczynski and Borusovic.
Michael S. Scarola (argued), Gelman & Gelman, Paterson, N. J., for appellees Alessi, Buisson, Michalski, Repka, Vogt and White.
Michael S. Bokar (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., John J. Degnan, Atty. Gen. of New Jersey, Stephen Skillman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., for intervenor State of New Jersey.
J. Richard Lauver, Charles R. Smith, J. Michael Ewing, Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Shenango, Inc. as amicus curiae.
James T. Carney, Pittsburgh, Pa., for U.S. Steel Corp. as amicus curiae.
William R. Caroselli, McArdle, Caroselli, Spagnolli & Beachler, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Gargon, Doumont, Milanovich, Banks, Barna, Miller, Zihol, as amicus curiae.
Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Laurence Reich (argued), John C. Heavey, Newark, N. J., for appellant General Motors Corp.
Warren J. Casey (argued), Pitney, Hardin & Kipp, Arnold S. Cohen, Morristown, N. J., for appellants Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.
M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., William A. Friedlander, Michael J. Roach, Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert J. Del Tufo, U. S. Attorney, Newark, N. J., for the United States as amicus curiae.
William L. Standish, William H. Powderly, III, Patrick W. Ritchey, Charles R. Herpich, Jr., Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Crucible Inc., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Mesta Machine Company, Pullman-Standard and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. as amicus curiae.
Paul S. Nathanson, Bruce K. Miller, Neal S. Dudovitz, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Los Angeles, Cal., for amicus curiae Gray Panthers.
Before GIBBONS, ROSENN and GARTH, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge.
These two appeals pose a single question: whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) or the laws of New Jersey invalidate the provision of the pension plans of defendants General Motors and Raybestos-Manhattan authorizing reduction, or offset, of pension benefits by amounts received by the pensioner under a Workmen's Compensation statute. We conclude that these offset provisions are not...
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