{"id":922,"date":"2024-05-22T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-certifies-class-action-alleging-31m-in-citgo-pension-underpayments\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:50:57","slug":"judge-certifies-class-action-alleging-31m-in-citgo-pension-underpayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-certifies-class-action-alleging-31m-in-citgo-pension-underpayments\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Certifies Class Action Alleging $31M in CITGO Pension Underpayments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Chicago recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ilnd.405988\/gov.uscourts.ilnd.405988.131.0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified<\/a>\u00a0a class of over 1,700 members and beneficiaries against CITGO Petroleum Corp., after rejecting the fuel company\u2019s summary judgment motion in a suit alleging it underpaid pension plans by upwards of $31 million.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly\u2019s ruling will allow the\u00a0plaintiffs\u2019 case to move forward to trial against the gas and energy giant, alleging\u00a0it violated the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act by\u00a0it\u00a0imposing a \u201cmarriage penalty\u201d on pension plans\u2019 joint and survivor annuity recipients.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Chicago recently\u00a0certified\u00a0a class of over 1,700 members and beneficiaries against CITGO Petroleum Corp., after rejecting the fuel company\u2019s summary judgment motion in a suit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1309,715,586,1308,1310,650,423,1311,1312],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-31m","tag-action","tag-alleging","tag-certifies","tag-citgo","tag-class","tag-judge","tag-pension","tag-underpayments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}