Resilient Floor Covering Pension Fund v. TD Sports Group, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RESILIENT FLOOR COVERING Case No. 22-cv-04649-HSG PENSION FUND, et al., AMENDED FINDINGS OF FACT AND Plaintiffs, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW1 9 v.

TD SPORTS GROUP, LLC,

11 Defendant. 12 Plaintiffs Resilient Floor Covering Pension Fund and Board of Trustees of the Resilient Floor Covering Pension Fund (collectively “Plaintiffs”) brought this action on behalf of themselves and plan participants and beneficiaries against Defendant TD Sports Group, LLC (“TD Sports”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et. seq (“ERISA”). See Dkt. No. 1 (“Compl.”) ¶ 1. Plaintiffs’ complaint seeks to collect the withdrawal liability that the pension fund assessed against Field Turf Construction, Inc. (“FTC”), arguing that Defendant is the successor of FTC and therefore jointly and severally liable for the withdrawal liability assessed against FTC. See id. at ¶¶ 30–41. The matter was tried to the Court, sitting without a jury, in January 2024. …