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ARGUED MAY 27, 2009

Before CUDAHY, RIPPLE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

CenTra, Inc. is a holding company that owns subsidiaries in trucking and real estate, as well as one that operates the Ambassador bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. In 1995, CenTra was reorganized to shed its unprofitable unionized trucking operations. Two years later, CenTra’s last unionized subsidiary-the Detroit International Bridge Co. (DIBC)-withdrew from the Central States pension fund, and the fund assessed more than $14 million in withdrawal liability against CenTra under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1381–1461. CenTra challenged the assessment in arbitration, and the arbitrator reduced the assessment to roughly $960,000. The district court vacated the arbitrator’s award and reinstated the fund’s assessment. We affirm.

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