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ROOTBERG v. CENTRAL STATES, ETC., PENSION FUND

No. 87-2873.

856 F.2d 796 (1988)

Philip ROOTBERG and Edward W. Ross, as trustees under the Liquidating Trust Agreement of M.P. Electric, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terence G. Craig, Central States Pension Fund, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Marc O. Beem, Miller, Shakman, Nathan & Hamilton, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

An employer who withdraws from a multiemployer pension fund, such as the teamsters pension fund involved in this case, is required by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1381 et seq., to compensate the fund by reimbursing it for his pro rata share of the fund's vested but unfunded pension liability. The idea is to prevent an employer from shifting to other employers its pension obligations to...

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