Santa Fe Pacific Corporation v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that avoiding withdrawal liability “needn’t be the only purpose; it need only have been one of the factors that weighed heavily in the seller’s thinking”
• reversing an arbitrator’s decision, even though arbitrator found three times that avoidance of withdrawal liability was not a principal purpose of a sale
• an employer should be let “off the hook even if one of his purposes was to beat withdrawal liabili ty, provided however that it was a minor, subordinate purpose, as distinct from a major purpose”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).