for The Hawall Bar Association
1. Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., No. 79-1943 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, March 4, 1981, Argued , May 18, 1981, Decided ** Together with No. 80-193, Buczynski et al. v. General Motors Corp. et al., on certiorari to the same court.
OVERVIEW: An offset provision in a pension plan which required that a retiree's pension benefits be reduced by an amount equal to the retiree's workers' compensation award was permissible under ERISA; a state statute to the contrary was invalid.
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