7/10/2006: Benefits As Burdens: U.S. Courts Wrangling over Retiree Health Benefits' Cuts (The National Law Journal)

Excerpt: Across the country in contract disputes and bankruptcy filings, federal courts have been pulled into the wrangling over how promises of lifetime benefits can be broken, or whether they existed at all. And the courts have not been uniform in their answers. Some predict that the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually have to step in to smooth out the wrinkles.