Ganton Technologies, Inc. v. National Industrial Group Pension Plan’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 462 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Kinstler v. First Reliance Standard Life Insurance (1999), Mario v. P & C Food Markets, Inc. (2002)
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. · Tomka v. Seiler Corp. · Milwaukee Brewery Workers' Pension Plan v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. · Morse v. Stanley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“resolve all disputes and ambiguities relating to the interpretation of the Plan”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when considered in light of Plan section 9.01, gives the Board discretion to approve or deny asset transfers. 24 When plan documents give the trustees the discretion to interpret plan terms, we will not substitute our judgment for theirs unless the trustees' interpretation is arbitrary and capricious. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101, 111 , 109 S.Ct. 948, 954 , 103 L.Ed.2d 80 (1989); Caterino, 8 F.3d at 883 . The district court found that the Board, even though it had the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in which it has an interest. 7 Ganton requested that NIGPP transfer NIGPP's liabilities relating to the pensions of Ganton's employees and that NIGPP concurrently transfer to Ganton's new plan the portion of NIGPP assets attributable to Ganton's past contributions. Ganton then would use the assets to fund its new single-employer plan (the Ganton Plan), and would pay the already vested pensions itself. In this way, Ganton employees would retain their pensions and Ganton could take the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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