LOWEN v. TOWER ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC.

Nos. 1259, 1260, Dockets 87-7205, 87-7289.

829 F.2d 1209 (1987)

Robert J. LOWEN, Allen C. Scott, Lloyd M. Martin, Francis E. Kyser, David Boyle, Robert Murphy, James R. Hammer, Edmund Davis, Franklin K. Riley, Anthony Naccarato, Michael Swayne, Richard Evans, and Allen Taylor, as Trustees of the MM & P Ind. Ret. Acct. Plan and/or MM & P Pension Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TOWER ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC., Tower Capital Corporation, Tower Securities, Inc., Andrew A. Levy, Samuel Kovnat, W. Randolph Wheeler, and Walter Levering, Defendants, Tower Asset Management, Inc., Tower Capital Corporation, Tower Securities, Inc., Andrew A. Levy, and W. Randolph Wheeler, Defendants-Appellants. The Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seham, Klein & Zelman, New York City, on the brief, for plaintiffs-appellees Murphy, Hammer, Davis, Riley, Naccarto, Swayne, Evans and Taylor.

Burton M. Epstein, Steinberg & Tugendrajch, New York City, on the brief, for plaintiffs-appellees Lowen, Scott, Martin, Kyser and Boyle.

Bernice K. Leber, New York City (William A. Alper, Steven Marshall, James Keneally, Summit Rovins & Feldesman, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Jane M. Kheel, Washington, D.C. (George R. Salem, Solicitor of Labor, Patricia Rodenhausen, Regional Solicitor of Labor, Robert N. Eccles, Associate Solicitor, Plan Benefits Sec. Div., Louis L. Joseph, Counsel for Fiduciary Litigation, Plan Benefits Sec. Div., Lois R. Zuckerman, Atty., Plan Benefits Sec. Div., Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Dept. of Labor, of counsel), for intervenor.

Bettina B. Plevan, New York City (Myron D. Rumeld, Kevin G. Chapman, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, WINTER and MINER, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-appellants Tower Asset Management, Inc. ("Tower Asset"), Tower Capital Corporation ("Tower Capital"), Tower Securities, Inc. ("Tower Securities"), Andrew A. Levy and W. Randolph Wheeler appeal from Judge Broderick's grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs-appellees, the Trustees of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots' Pension Plan ("Pension Plan") and Individual Retirement Account Plan ("IRAP") ...

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