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Pension Plan Terminations And Asset Reversions: Accommodating The Interests Of Employers And Employees, Carl A. Butler Oct 1985

Pension Plan Terminations And Asset Reversions: Accommodating The Interests Of Employers And Employees, Carl A. Butler

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note focuses on the problems that often arise for plan participants when an overfunded defined benefit plan is terminated and the employer recaptures excess assets. Part I explains the relative ease with which employers can terminate plans and receive excess assets under current pension law. Part II argues that pension law must be reformed because its shortcomings threaten American workers' retirement income security, it allows for sham terminations that remove assets from plans that are, in fact, ongoing, and it usually allows excess assets to go to employers rather than employees. Part III discusses two reforms proposed for plan …


League Of Women Voters V. City Of New Orleans: Standing In Suits Against Public Officials, J. Keith Hardie Jr. Sep 1985

League Of Women Voters V. City Of New Orleans: Standing In Suits Against Public Officials, J. Keith Hardie Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Participatory Management Under Sections 2(5) And 8(A) (2) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Michigan Law Review Jun 1985

Participatory Management Under Sections 2(5) And 8(A) (2) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that participatory management programs initiated by the employer in nonunion settings should be permissible under the NLRA when they do not restrict the freedom of employees to choose their own bargaining representative. Section I describes the major currents of participatory management theory. Section II explores the restrictive interpretation the National Labor Relations Board (Board) and the courts have traditionally given those sections of the NLRA applicable to participatory management programs. Section III describes the increasingly permissive approach taken by some courts, and to a lesser extent by the Board, in applying the NLRA to participatory management settings. …


Connick V. Myers: New Restrictions On The Free Speech Rights Of Government Employees, Peter C. Mccabe Iii Apr 1985

Connick V. Myers: New Restrictions On The Free Speech Rights Of Government Employees, Peter C. Mccabe Iii

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Burger Court's Unified Approach To Standing And Its Impact On Congressional Plaintiffs, Arthur H. Abel Jan 1985

Burger Court's Unified Approach To Standing And Its Impact On Congressional Plaintiffs, Arthur H. Abel

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.