Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund et al. v. Central Transport, Inc., et al. (472 U.S. 559)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 19, 1985 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 472 U.S. 559 · 105 S. Ct. 2833
- Decided
- June 19, 1985
- Term
- October Term 1984
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Marshall
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
Justice Marshall delivered the opinion for the Court. The issue presented is whether an employer who participates in a multiemployer benefit plan that is governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U. S. C. §1001 et seq., must allow the plan to conduct an audit involving the records of employees who the employer denies are participants in the plan. J — I □> Petitioners are two large multiemployer benefit plans, the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund and the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund (hereinafter referred to collectively as Central States). Governed by § 302(c)(5) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 29 U. S. C. § 186(c)(5), and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq., as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, Pub. L. 96-364, 94 Stat. 1208, these plans operate as trusts for the purpose of providing specified health, welfare, and pension benefits to employees performing work that is covered by collective-bargaining agreements negotiated by various affiliates of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America (Teamsters). Respondents (hereinafter referred to collectively as Central Transport) are 16 interstate trucking companies, each of which,…
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