SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 28 OF N.J. v. GALLAGHER

No. 91-5056.

960 F.2d 1195 (1992)

SHEET METAL WORKERS' LOCAL 28 OF NEW JERSEY WELFARE FUND; Arthur Moore; William Viotle; Joseph Demark; Frank Cregan; Andy Mihal; Richard Domanico; Sheet Metal Workers' Local 20 of New Jersey Welfare Fund; Ralph A. Quackenbush; Gilbert Nelson; Edward S. Burke; Michael Ryan; Brian Deegan; Richard Bonner; Michael Losito; Arthur Ford; Henry Pfeifer; June R. Pfeifer; Thomas Welch; John Sirochman, Sr.; Milton Kubu; John Rupshis; George Pace, Sr.; Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local 28; Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local 27; William G. Sullivan; Ronald Boyle; Carol Ann Boyle v. Edward GALLAGHER, Trustee; Cornelius P. Sharkey, Jr., Trustee; Bernard Yamakaitis, Trustee; Harry Harris, Trustee; Campbell Johnstone, Trustee; Eugene Morrison, Trustee; Sheet Metal Workers' Local Union 22 of New Jersey Welfare Fund. SHEET METAL WORKERS' NATIONAL PENSION FUND; Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 28; Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 27; Edward J. Carlough, Trustee; Robert T. Stringer, Trustee; C.T. Roff, Trustee; Cavet Snyder, Trustee; Salvatore J. Cardella; Rocco Cassio; Thomas Cofield; Francis Daughenti; Robert Davis; Ernest E. Finizio; Arthur P. Ford; Lawrence A. Fredericks; Ronald J. Gehring; Ronald N. Gedman; Herbert Gunsaules; Matthew M. Hirsh; John Hyland; Milton J. Kubu; George J. Martin; Robert J. Miller; June Nolan; Frederick Rotz; George E. Schwerdt; John P. Sirochman; Robert J. Smith; Henry Zaleski; Paul Vella v. Edward GALLAGHER, Trustee; Cornelius P. Sharkey, Jr., Trustee; Bernard Yamakaitis, Trustee; Harry Harris, Trustee; Campbell Johnstone, Trustee; Eugene Morrison, Trustee; Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 22 of New Jersey Pension Fund.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1992.

As Amended May 14, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore M. Lieverman (argued), James Katz, Mark Belland, Tomar, Simonoff, Adourian & O'Brien, Haddonfield, N.J., Raymond J. Sweeney, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

John A. Craner (argued), Craner, Nelson, Satkin & Scheer, Scotch Plains, N.J., for appellees.

Before: BECKER and ALITO, Circuit Judges, and HUYETT, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from a dispute between two labor unions over the right to control a welfare fund and a pension fund. One union, an independent local, seceded from the other, an international union, and asserted control over the local's pension and welfare funds, which had previously been controlled by the international. After the secession, a subgroup within the independent returned to membership in locals affiliated...

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