Panel Doesn’t Follow Metz In Deciding MPPAA Withdrawal Liability Disputes

( February 14, 2024, 10:21 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saying the reasoning in a sister circuit’s decision is “counter to the text of” the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act (MPPAA), a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed rulings for the trustees of a multiemployer pension plan in withdrawal liability disputes involving actuarial assumptions....