Employee Benefits Committee Of The Retirement System Of Hawaiian Telephone Company v. Eleanor Pascoe

679 F.2d 1319 3 Employee Benefits Ca 1721 The EMPLOYEE BENEFITS COMMITTEE OF the RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF HAWAIIAN TELEPHONE COMPANY, and The Hawaiian Telephone Company, Plaintiff/Appellants, v. Eleanor PASCOE, Edward Young, Edmund Lin, Frank Yee, Cornelio Kaai, James Jeremiah, and Local 1357, IBEW, Defendants/Appellees. No. 81-4014. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted Feb. 11, 1982. Decided June 23, 1982. Jared H. Jossem, Roger W. Fonseca, J. George Hetherington, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs/appellants. Herbert R. Takahashi, Dwight Takamine, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants/appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before SNEED, PREGERSON and POOLE, Circuit Judges. POOLE, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants, the Employee Benefits Committee of the Retirement System of the Hawaiian Telephone Company (the Committee) and the Hawaiian Telephone Company (the Company), appeal from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the appellees entered by the district court. The district court found, that, as a matter of law, the provision in the appellants' pension plan permitting offset of workers' compensation benefits against benefits…