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CENTRAL LABORERS' PENSION v. HEINZ, THOMAS E., ET AL. (37409)

    Order dated: 03/24/03
    Docket number: 02-891
    Action:
        The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.

CENTRAL LABORERS' PENSION v. HEINZ, THOMAS E., ET AL. (37409)

    Order dated: 12/01/03
    Docket number: 02-891
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.

CENTRAL LABORERS' PENSION v. HEINZ, THOMAS E., ET AL. (37409)

    Order dated: 03/22/04
    Docket number: 02-891
    Action:
        The motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument is granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether an amendment to a multiemployer pension plan that provides for the suspension of the payment of early retirement benefits during the period that a participant, after retiring, is employed by another firm in the same industry is a prohibited elimination or reduction of such benefits under the "anti-cutback" rule in Section 204(g) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1054(g), when applied to employees who retired prior to adoption of the amendment.

An opinion has been handed down: