Opinion ID: 573191
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Text: 11 Before our recent decision in Trustees of the Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union (Independent) Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc., 935 F.2d 114 (7th Cir.1991), orders compelling interim withdrawal payments were treated as orders granting or denying injunctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). See McNicholas, 819 F.2d at 685. As such, the orders could be appealed only if they might have a 'serious, perhaps irreparable consequence.'  Id., quoting I.A.M. Nat'l. Pension Fund v. Cooper Indus., 789 F.2d 21, 24 (D.C.Cir.1986). To simplify the subject, Central Transport held that these orders are not injunctions, but rather are money judgments, final and appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Central Transport, 935 F.2d at 117. 12 The Fund challenges the application of the Central Transport rule to the order in this case. While the order in Central Transport compelled payment of the accrued liability and ordered the employer to make future payments as they came due, the Rentar order did not grant prospective relief but ordered payment only of the amount currently due and owing. Because they did not get all of the relief they were seeking and could go back to court to force future payments, the Fund contends that the order could not be considered final. We disagree because this argument places too much emphasis on the scope of the relief granted. Central Transport held that the terminating order of any suit seeking 'interim payments' under § 1399(c)(2) is a final decision, appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Central Transport, 935 F.2d at 117. The failure to include prospective relief does not make the order any less final. 13