DIAZ v. SEAFARERS INTERN. UNION

No. 93-1488.

13 F.3d 454 (1994)

Domingo DIAZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos A. Del Valle Cruz, with whom Jose Luis Gonzalez Castaner, was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants Domingo Diaz.

Mary T. Sullivan, with whom Segal, Roitman & Coleman, and Ellen Silver, Associate Counsel, Seafarers Pension Plan, were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Chief Judge.

Domingo Diaz, a retired seaman, brought this lawsuit against the Seafarers International Union and the Union's Pension Plan. He says that the Plan should have provided him a pension of about $450 per month, rather than about $200 per month. The Plan's failure to do so, in Diaz's view, represents an erroneous application of the Plan's own pension-calculation rules and thereby violates federal law. See Employee Retirement Income Security...

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