PRATER v. OHIO EDUC. ASS'N

No. 06-4393.

505 F.3d 437 (2007)

James I. PRATER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David M. Cook, Cook, Portune & Logothetis, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants. Rodger L. Eckelberry, Baker & Hostetler, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: David M. Cook, Robert E. Rickey, Stephen A. Simon, Cook, Portune & Logothetis, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellant. Rodger L. Eckelberry, Manuel Jose Asensio III, Baker & Hostetler, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee. Michael F. Saggau, Daniel W. Sherrick, Associate General Counsel, Detroit, Michigan, Lisa M. Smith, Samuel C. McKnight, Klimist, McKnight, Sale, McClow & Canzano, Southfield, Michigan, for Amici Curiae.

Before: SUTTON and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; FORESTER, District Judge.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

James Prater and several other retired employees of the Ohio Education Association ("OEA") claim that OEA improperly terminated their health benefits, which (they say) had become vested and irreducible through a series of collective bargaining agreements. Relying in part on our decision in Maurer v. Joy Technologies, Inc., 212 F.3d 907 (6th Cir.2000), the district court rejected the...

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