9th Circuit Panel Tosses Contract Appeal For Lack Of Subject Matter Jurisdiction

(February 6, 2017, 3:17 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 30 dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction an appeal of a California federal judge’s dismissal of a breach of contract claim by a union pension plan against a national union pension fund (Trustees of the U.A. Local 38 Defined Benefit Pension Plan, et al. v. Trustees of the Plumber and Pipe Fitters National Pension Fund, et al., No. 14-16543, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 1612)....