BOUBOULIS v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION

Docket No. 04-4241-CV(L), 04-4244-CV(CON).

442 F.3d 55 (2006)

Nicholas BOUBOULIS, Eileen Bouboulis, Joseph Bracken, Bertha Bracken, Arnold Cherry, Joseph Continanzi, Jeannette Continanzi, Anthony Corona, Joann Corona, Vincent Curulli, Minnie Curulli, Dennis Gallen, Franca Gallen, Lawrence Henry, Dorothy Henry, John Higgins, Mary Higgins, William Keating, Mary Keating, Peter Lynch, Iris Lynch, John McGrath, Elizabeth McGrath, John Meehan, Sandra Meehan, John Mirrione, Marianne Mirrione, John Moscola, Gail Moscola, Francis O'Brien, Nicki O'Brien, Gustave Pelligrino, Barbara Pelligrino, Angelo Perilli, Beverly Perilli, Pedro Quinones, Mildred Quinones, Gil Rodriguez, Luz Maria Rodriguez, Darnell Rogers, Delphine Rogers, George Small, Anna Small, Charles Tompkinson, and Margaret Tompkinson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA, Transport Workers Union of Greater New York, Local 100, and Transport Workers Union of Greater New York Local 100 Staff Benefit Plan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 14, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Schell, Schell & Schell, P.C., Fairport, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Daniel R. Bright, Kennedy, Schwartz & Cure, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Transport Workers Union of Greater New York, Local 100.

Peter D. Dechiara, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Transport Workers Union of America and Transport Workers Union of Greater New York Local 100 Staff Benefit Plan.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, SACK, Circuit Judges; KOELTL, District Judge.


KOELTL, District Judge.

In April 2002, the Transport Workers Union of Greater New York, Local 100 ("Local 100"), a local union affiliated with the Transport Workers Union of America ("TWU"), modified its employee benefit plan to stop providing health insurance benefits to Local 100 retirees if they received health insurance benefits elsewhere. In response, the plaintiffs, who are twenty-three retired staff employees of Local 100 (the "Retirees") and the wives of twenty...

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