Trustees of the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Pension & Health Plans v. NYCA, Inc., No. 08-55409
In an ERISA action for breach of a collective bargaining agreement requiring advertising agencies to make contributions to certain benefit plans for actors, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where ERISA allows employee benefit plans to recover unpaid contributions from an employer who is not a party to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted May 5, 2009
Filed July 15, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge O'Scannlain
Counsel
For Appellants:
Peter S. Dickinson, Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson, Glendale, California
For Appellees:
Robert S. Gerber, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA
Matthew W. Holder, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA