WestRock, an Atlanta-based paper and packaging company, cannot avoid making shortfall contributions to a pension fund in a “dire financial condition,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Judge Charles Wilson parsed through the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and its accompanying rules with an opinion supported by Senior Judge R. Lanier Anderson and substituting Judge Barbara Rothstein of the District of Columbia.

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