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· 9/8/1992

Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, a Pension Trust, Loran W. Robbins, Marion M. Winstead v. Jean Ditello and Angelo Ditello

Citations

  • 974 F.2d 887
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 20898
  • 1992 WL 214044

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • declining to rely on Groetzinger because the term \trade or business\ has different meanings \ 'depending upon the [statutory] provision in which it is used' \
  • declining to rely on Groetzinger because the term “trade or business” has different meanings “ ‘depending upon the [statutory] provision in which it is used’ ”
  • decided weeks after Personnel and finding that “this circuit has never squarely faced the issue of whether businesses must be economically related ... under section 1301(b)(1)”
  • “Although the Groetzinger court considered a provision of the tax code, we find its definition helpful in distinguishing trades or businesses [under ERISA] from purely personal activities or investments.”
  • “[Fjederal courts ... have uniformly held that leasing property to a withdrawing employer is a ‘trade or business’ for purposes of section 1301(b)(1).”
  • decided weeks after Personnel and finding that \this circuit has never squarely faced the issue of whether businesses must be economically related . . . under section 1301(b)(1)\

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Judges: Cummings, Easterbrook, Manion

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