MICHELS CORP. v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST

Nos. 14-3726, 14-3737.

800 F.3d 411 (2015)

MICHELS CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Counterclaim Defendant-Appellant, Pipe Line Contractors Association, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL STATES, SOUTHEAST, AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND, et al., Defendants-Counterclaim Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David K. Haase , Attorney, Littler Mendelson P.C., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Timothy Craig Reuter , Attorney, Central States Funds Law Department, Rosemont, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Elizabeth A. Cyr , Attorney, Eric Field , Attorney, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC, Robert Stephen Driscoll , Attorney, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C., Milwaukee, WI, Rex S. Heinke , Attorney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, CA, for Intervening Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


This case raises a familiar problem for pension funds: when did an employer's obligation to contribute to the fund end? That question turns on when the governing collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between a multi-employer group and a union terminated and how one should characterize a series of temporary "extensions" of the...

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