HOLLAND v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 84-2241.

772 F.2d 1140 (1985)

Rose M. HOLLAND; Jean H. Stallings; Walter Burlington, Jr.; John C. Brooks, Commissioner of Labor of the State of North Carolina, Plaintiffs, and Bill N. Slack; Jimmy W. Aheron; Carol Aldridge; Pamila B. Apple; Carole Baggett; Thomas F. Bowden; Walter Brom; Nellie B. Burwell; Elizabeth S. Canada; Gary L. Carter; Irene Chandler; James J. Clifford; Linda S. Coble; James A. Crawford; Ruth Dixon; Octavia M. Driver; Edmund Foster; Richard C. Foy; Peggy A. Gerringer; Deville Goodman; Ada R. Griffin; Delanor M. Hamby; Mildred R. Hester; Evelyn H. Hilton; Peggy W. Hodge; Mary E. Hope; Joseph J. Houston; Don Huffman; Jeff Hughes, Yvonnie B. James; Melvin E. King; Norma M. Loy; Sara Copeland Maness; Linda Mooneyham; Cora N. Moore; Virginia M. Moore; Robert C. Moricle; Edna M. Murray; Faye F. Neese; Gladys J. Oakley; Patricia G. Page; Daniel E. Perry; Barbara P. Petty; P. Douglas Pierce; Betty Hornaday Ray; Ruth S. Rich; Mary Darlene Rierson; Fred Brewer Roberts; Ida B. Saul; William A. Seelman; Sylvia R. Shoe; Gladys H. Shore; Frances Simmons; Mary Foust Stansell; Peggy P. Stone; Sherman C. Summers; Frances B. Sykes; Barbara D. Thompson; Ronald F. Tyree; Hazel P. Walker; Mary Lou Whitfield; Rita P. Whitley; Sandra F. Wilson; Brownie A. Wright; Elsie B. Young; Bettie J. Boswell; Debbie M. Rascoe; Lemmer Sherdina Sellars; Jack T. Sullivan; Claude O. Anders; Eva Barr; Margaret Brindle; Hoyt Cheek, Sr.; Hubert Foltz; Clyde Jarrell; Robert Martin; Thelma Martin; Leslie Morehead; Gerald Moretz; Alice Nelson; Carolyn Rayfield; Daisy Rickey; Ethel Royal; Larry Wright; William K. Anders; Merilla L. Barrier; Diane L. Boehm; Henry M. Brown; Hilda K. Cox; Stephen E. Elmore, Jr.; Richard L. Hall; William Jones; Paul M. King; Robert E. May; William Robert Oman; Cecil A. Poff; John W. Quick; Clifton Smith; Mary Smith; J. Clay Stiles, III; Bobby S. Tew; Thurman A. Chriscoe; Roy F. Williamson; Betty Albright; Nadine Albright; Boyce J. Asbill; Doris S. Baughan; Larry C. Beane; Melodye Snow Beard; Susan Beasley; Robert N. Blevins; Karen L. Boling; Wanda Bowman; Linda B. Brady; Linda P. Bristow; David Brittain; Marcella Jo Brittain; Mary R. Bullard; Betty S. Byrd; Charles H. Byrd; George M. Byrum; Charles F. Cagle, Jr.; Claude R. Cagle; Ann J. Campbell; Joe J. Cassett; Kimberly Spoon Coats; Garland J. Cole; George C. Cole; Ted Cooley; Clara M. Cox; Phyllis Ingold Cox; Cindy M. Cranford; Tommy L. Cranford; Curtis L. Craven; Jackie Nall Davis; Wayne L. Duggins; Nancy M. Ellison; Herman A. Flynt; Cecil C. Gatlin; Earl Glover; Willard E. Gordon; Rayford B. Grant; James L. Hammer; Donald L. Harshaw; Larry Lee Highsmith; Tommy W. Hill; Kathryn Jeanette Hogan; Carroll D. Hoyle; Sandra Hunsucker; Katherine R. James; Linda Jordan Kennedy; Coy A. Kiser; Marilyn Hewitt Knight; Robert N.W. Knott; Gaynell H. Ledwall; Marguerite M. Lineberry; Shelby L. Logsdon; Marlene B. Lucas; Barbara S. Miller; Juanita K. Moody; Grace H. McNeill; Robert F. McWilliams; Susan B. Pack; Cathy D. Powers; Betty M. Reeves; Van E. Rich; Edwin L. Ridge; Harry Rose; Carol L. Savchak; Lenora C. Shaw; James W. Slaughter; Bobby N. Smith; Mike S. Smith; Imogene N. Snider; John W. Snider; Mary Edith Spoon; Jean A. Stafford; Mozelle A. Stout; Harriett W. Summey; Brenda S. Thomas; Gerald D. Thomas; Frances Freeman Tilley; Hazel S. Trogdon; Betty C. Von Cannon; Myrle L. Walker; William Bullock; Eurika Plummer; Terriel E. Wessinger, Jr.; Walter G. Williamson; James L. Wilson, Jr.; Mildred C. York; Faye T. Yow; Brian Dale Manuel; Raymond Claude Evans; A. Gene Heidel; Brenda B. Herndon; Russell W. Herndon; Virginia H. Schulte; Sandra G. Walker; Sharon G. Warren; Shirley W. Welch and Roger Downs, Appellants v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.; Calvin A. Michaels; Charles A. McLendon; Humberto L. Quintana; Appellees. State of New York, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion G. Follin, III, Greensboro, N.C., Tiare B. Smiley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Michael K. Curtis, Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James & Harkavy, Greensboro, N.C., Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., John C. Brooks, Com'r of Labor, Thomas A. Harris, Director Wage and Hour Div., Raleigh, N.C., on brief) for appellants/intervenor.

McNeill Smith, Greensboro, N.C. (Ben F. Tennille, Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N.C., on brief) for appellee.

Robert Hermann, Sol. Gen., O. Peter Sherwood, Deputy Sol. Gen., Albany, N.Y., Carlin Meyer, Jane Lauer Barker, Andrew Schultz, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., New York City, on brief) for amicus curiae.

Before HALL and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Former employees of Burlington Industries, Inc. Socks and Hosiery Divisions brought suit seeking to recover severance pay allegedly due upon Burlington's sale of the divisions to Kayser-Roth Corporation. The court below granted summary judgment for defendant after finding that the severance pay policy at issue was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., that ERISA preempted state...

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