HEUSSNER v. NATIONAL GYPSUM CO.

No. 88-1987.

887 F.2d 672 (1989)

Farrell J. HEUSSNER; Plaintiff-Appellant, Merton J. Wiedbrank; Beverly Diamond; Wayne Thomas Diamond; Thomas Reynolds; Gerald Kline; Frederick Baker; Harry Ferris; Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation; Lafarge Corporation, a Maryland Corp.; General Portland, Inc., a Delaware Corp., Local 135, United Steelworkers of America; Local 175 of the United Steelworkers of America; Local 176 of the United Steelworkers of America; Local 30 of the United Plant Guard Workers of America; International Union United Steelworkers of America; Cement Division, National Gypsum Company Pension Plan for Hourly Employees; National Gypsum, as Plan Administrator for the Cement Division; National Gypsum Company Pension Plan for Hourly Employees; Cement Division, National Gypsum Company, Insurance & Health Agreement, an employee welfare benefit plan; Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan; National Bank of Detroit, as Trustee of Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan, a National banking corp., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Pokoj, John H. Fildew, Fildew, Hinks, Gilbride, Miller & Todd, Detroit, Mich., Charles J. Taunt (argued), Charles J. Taunt & Associates, Birmingham, Mich., Herbert C. Huson, St. Clair Shores, Mich., for Ferrel J. Heussner.

J. Alan Lips (argued), Donald C. Dowling, Jr., Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, Peter F. Dahm, Lambert, Leser, Dahm, Giunta, Cook & Schmidt, Bay City, Mich., for National Gypsum Co., Cement Div., Nat. Gypsum Co. Pension Plan for Hourly Employees, Nat. Gypsum, as Plan Adm. for the Cement Div., National Gypsum Co. Pension Plan for Hourly Employees, Cement Div., Nat. Gypsum Co., Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan and National Bank of Detroit.

Thomas F. James, Saginaw, Mich., Rody P. Biggert, Thomas J. Piskorski, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for Lafarge Corp., a Maryland Corp. and General Portland, Inc., a Delaware Corp.

Richard J. Brean (argued), Pittsburgh, Pa., Stuart M. Israel, Miller, Cohen, Martens & Ice, Southfield, Mich., for Local 135, United Steelworkers of America, Local 175 of the United Steelworkers of America, Local 176 of the United Steelworkers of America, Local 30 of the United Plant Guard Workers of America and International Union United Steelworkers of America.

Before KEITH and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 19, 1989.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, former employees of the National Gypsum Company, appeal the district court's dismissal of their action on a collective bargaining agreement for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Because the plaintiffs failed to specify in their notice of appeal the party or parties taking the appeal, we grant the defendants...

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