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FORT HALIFAX PACKING CO. v. COYNE

No. 86-341.

482 U.S. 1 (1987)

FORT HALIFAX PACKING CO., INC. v. COYNE, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF LABOR STANDARDS OF MAINE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1987

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Yavis, Jr., argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs were Thomas M. Cloherty and Barry J. Waters.

Thomas D. Warren, Assistant Attorney General of Maine, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief for appellee Coyne was James E. Tierney, Attorney General.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations by Marsha S. Berzon and Laurence Gold; and for the Employment Law Center et al. by Joan M. Graff, Robert Barnes, John M. True, Patricia A. Shiu, and James Eggleston.

JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case we must decide whether a Maine statute requiring employers to provide a one-time severance payment to employees in the event of a plant closing, Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Tit. 26, § 625-B (Supp. 1986-1987),1 is pre-empted by either the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 88 Stat. 832, as amended, 29 U. S. C. §§...

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