British Motor Car Distributors, Ltd. v. San Francisco Automotive Industries Welfare Fund

882 F.2d 371 132 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2194 , 58 USLW 2147 , 113 Lab.Cas. P 11,695 , 11 Employee Benefits Ca 1420 BRITISH MOTOR CAR DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.; San Francisco Autocenter; Van Ness Auto Plaza, Inc.; Golden Gate Motors, Inc.; and European Motors, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAN FRANCISCO AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES WELFARE FUND, a trust fund, Defendant-Appellee. No. 88-15192. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 26, 1989. Decided Aug. 9, 1989. Robert G. Hulteng and Jonathan D. Rosenfeld, Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Kenneth N. Silbert and Geoffrey Piller, Beeson, Tayer, Silbert, Bodine & Livingston, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee. Jeffrey H. Saltzman, Saltzman & Johnson, San Francisco, Cal., for intervenors-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before BROWNING, PREGERSON and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. PREGERSON, Circuit Judge: 1 Plaintiff-Appellants British Motor Car Distributors, Ltd. and other automotive dealers (the "Employers") appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of…