BRICKLAYERS OF WEST. PENN. v. SCOTT'S DEV.

No. 36 WAP 2012, No. 37 WAP 2012

90 A.3d 682 (2014)

BRICKLAYERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COMBINED FUNDS, INC., Appellee v. SCOTT'S DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, Appellant. Laborers' Combined Funds of Western Pennsylvania, as Agent for Phillip Ameris and Albert W. Betler, Trustees Ad Litem, Laborers' District Council of Western Pennsylvania Welfare and Pension Funds, the Construction Industry Advancement Program of Western PA Fund, and the Laborers' District Council of Pennsylvania and its Affiliated Local Unions, Appellees v. Scott's Development Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 17, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Geoffrey Baumann, Esq. , Knox, McLaughlin, Gornall & Sennett, P.C., Erie, for Scott's Development Company.

Edward Bernandon Gentilcore, Esq. , Pittsburgh, for Associated General Contractors of America, Amicus Curiae, General Building Contractors Association, Amicus Curiae, General Contractors Association of Pennsylvania, Amicus Curiae, Keystone Contractors Association, Amicus Curiae, The Master Builders' Association of Western Pennsylvania, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Kenneth Weller Lee, Esq. , Lemoyne, for Bricklayers of Western Pennsylvania Combined Funds, Inc. (No. 36 WAP 2012), Laborers Combined Funds of Western Pennsylvania, Phillip Ameris, Laborer's District Counsel of Western Pennsylvania, the Construction Industry of Advancement program, Albert W. Betler, Laborers District Council of Pennsylvania and Its Afflicted Unions (No. 37 WAP 2012).

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, MCCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to determine whether the Mechanics' Lien Law of 1963 authorizes a union's employee benefits trust fund to file a mechanics' lien claim on behalf of union members who performed work for a construction contractor.

According to the allegations in the complaints filed by the trust funds (appellees herein),1 William Pustelak, Inc., a construction contractor ("Contractor"),...

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