Northwest Administrators, Inc. v. National Express Transit Services Corp.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 NORTHWEST ADMINISTRATORS, No. 2:19-cv-00744 WBS AC
INC.,
12 Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS v.
NATIONAL EXPRESS TRANSIT
SERVICES CORPORATION, Defendant. 17 This matter is before the court on plaintiff’s motion to compel compliance by defendants Durham School Services and National Express, LLC (“Added Defendants”) with an audit request for payroll records pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., and certain benefit plan documents. ECF No. 48. This motion was referred to the undersigned pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(19). The motion came before the undersigned for hearing on August 14, 2019. ECF No. 22. Plaintiff contends that National Express Transit, originally the sole defendant in this lawsuit, is obligated to submit to an audit under the terms of the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund’s…