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082230P.pdf 07/31/2009 Thomas Eisenrich v. Minneapolis Retail Meat
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-2230
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge and
Goldberg, Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade]
Civil case - ERISA. District court did not err in finding that the
defendant had wrongfully suspended plaintiff's monthly pension benefits
as his new employment (distributing packaged baked goods) used
different skills and was not in the same trade or craft as the meat cutter
position from which he had retired; however, the court erred in awarding
plaintiff attorneys' fees under ERISA because the Plan's position was not
untenable, indefensible, overbroad or unwarranted.