ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS v. MICHIGAN DEPT. OF LABOR

Nos. 07-1639, 07-1649, 07-1654.

543 F.3d 275 (2008)

ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS, Saginaw Valley Area Chapter, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, et al., Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 16, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Dennis Raterink, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, John R. Canzano, Klimist, McKnight, Sale, McClow & Canzano, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellants. David John Masud, Masud, Patterson, Schutter, Peters & Vary, Saginaw, Michigan, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Dennis Raterink, Richard P. Gartner, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, John R. Canzano, Klimist, Mcknight, Sale, McClow & Canzano, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellants. David John Masud, Katherine S. Gardner, Masud, Patterson, Schutter, Peters & Vary, Saginaw, Michigan, for Appellees.

Before: SUTTON and COOK, Circuit Judges; ROSE, District Judge.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

"This is another Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) pre-emption case," De Buono v. NYSA-ILA Med. & Clinical Servs. Fund, 520 U.S. 806, 808, 117 S.Ct. 1747, 138 L.Ed.2d 21 (1997), one that asks whether ERISA preempts two provisions of a Michigan law governing the training of apprentice electricians. Because "the substantive standards to be applied to apprenticeship...

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