LICENSED DIV. DIST. NO. 1 MEBA/NMU, AFL-CIO v. DEFRIES

Nos. 91-2033, 91-2056.

943 F.2d 474 (1991)

LICENSED DIVISION DISTRICT NO. 1 MEBA/NMU, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clayton Eugene DEFRIES; Clyde E. Dodson; Claude W. Daulley; R.F. Schamann; Karl Landgrebe; Donald Masingo, Defendants-Appellants (Two Cases).

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Higgins, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C., argued (Angelo V. Arcadipane, Joseph E. Kolick, Jr., Marcus C. Migliore and David B. Killalea, on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Susan Souder, Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, Baltimore, Md., argued (Nancy E. Paige, Charles R. Bacharach, Mark H. Kolman, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and HALLANAN, District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

The Licensed Division of District No. 1 of the Marine Engineers' Benefits Association/National Maritime Union (Licensed Division), filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that the Licensed Division, and not its "parent union," District No. 1 — MEBA/NMU (District No. 1), had authority to appoint the union trustees of benefit plans of recently merged unions. The Licensed Division...

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