Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc. v. Joseph P. Connors, Sr. Appeal of Associated Electric Cooperatives, Inc

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• noting that a third-party beneficiary “steps into the shoes of the promisee”
• “In the usual case, a third party beneficiary that brings a contract claim steps into the shoes of the promisee . . .”
• “employer may not defend on the ground of union misconduct in negotiating the agreement”
• “[I]n enacting section 515, Congress was primarily concerned with overdue contributions; the problem that it sought to address had consistently arisen in situations where a pension fund was seeking to collect overdue payments from employers.”
• “When the trustees of a pension plan created pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement sue an employer for contributions required 9 by the plan, the employer may not defend on the ground of union misconduct in negotiating the agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).