Board of Trustees of IBEW Local 100 Pension Trust Fund v. Trinity Construction Enterprises, Inc.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF IBEW Case No. 1:23-cv-01048-KES-BAM LOCAL 100 PENSION TRUST FUND, et 12 al., ORDER REGARDING INFORMAL

DISCOVERY DISPUTE

13 Plaintiffs, (Docs. 51, 52) 14 v. 15 TRINITY CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES INC dba TRINITY 16 POWER; and DOES 1 through 50, 17 Defendants. 18 19 I. Background 20 This is an action arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the 21 Labor Management Relations Act. Plaintiffs Board of Trustees of, respectively, IBEW Local 100 22 Pension Trust Fund, Joint Electrical Industry Training Trust Fund, NECA/IBEW Family Medical 23 Care Trust Fund, and National Electrical Benefit Fund (collectively “Plaintiffs”) generally allege 24 that Defendant Trinity Construction Enterprises Inc. dba Trinity Power failed to remit all fringe 25 benefit contributions required by a collective bargaining agreement. (See Doc. 1, Complaint.) 26 In December 2024, the parties initiated this Court’s informal discovery dispute…