AMATO v. WESTERN UNION INTERN., INC.

No. 1000, Docket 84-7978.

773 F.2d 1402 (1985)

Frank J. AMATO, Robert J. Andes, Ernest R. Buntin, Raymond V. Carlisle, John J. Cengia, Nicholas Cicero, Joseph Cilenti, Paul L. Coriaty, Robert C. Davis, Ronald D'Ellia, Robert DeForge, Robert DeNunzio, Kevin Dunn, Ernest Ford, Anthony J. Gargiulo, Norman Goldman, Gerald Green, Joseph A. Gregurich, Thomas G. Harrington, Henry Kee Chee, Frank A. Larkin, Salvatore Lifari, David Mallon, Frank P. Manzione, Rudolph Mears, Richard W. Phillips, Nicholas F. Rotolo, Bruce Rutherford, Robert Scheddin, Thomas W. Smith, Arthur Tavenor, Eugene T. Tonissen, Felix Vales, Jr., and Leonard L. Wisniewski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WESTERN UNION INTERNATIONAL, INC., M.C.I. Communications Corporation, and Microwave Maintenance Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Levy, New York City (Fanette Pollack, Nancy Goldhill, Eisner & Levy, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Greg A. Danilow, New York City (Michael J. Nassau, Stuart J. Baskin, Anthony E. Kaplan, Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Michael L. Paup, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for amicus curiae U.S.

Before MANSFIELD, KEARSE and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue on this appeal is whether Western Union International, Inc. ("Western Union") and its corporate parents, Microwave Maintenance Corporation and M.C.I. Communications Corporation (collectively referred to as "MCI"), violated rights of Western Union's long-term non-bargaining unit employees under its Pension Plan ("Plan") by amending that Plan in November 1982 to reduce certain early retirement benefits for which they were...

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