Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Greeley

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• illustrating that rules of incentive bonus retirement plan provided that funds can be withheld until former employee turns age 65
• placing no jurisdictional significance on the trustee’s mailing from Pennsylvania to Maryland a letter to the plaintiff denying his pension benefits absent any indication that the trustee played any role in the decision to deny the plaintiffs benefits claim
• forfeiture clause in employee pension plan prohibiting competition was unreasonable because it contained no limitation as to area or duration
• forfeiture of rights under pension plan an invalid restraint where former employee’s work for an indirect competitor created little, if any, hardship to his former employer
• “The Plan . . . stipulates that distribution is subject to the conditions imposed upon post-employment conduct which are contained in Section 7.1 . . . .”
• apply- ing reasonableness standard to restrictive covenant in pension plan

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