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WINNETT v. CATERPILLAR, INC.

No. 08-6236.

609 F.3d 404 (2010)

Gary T. WINNETT, Freda Jackson-Chittum, Casper R. Harris, William H. Dailey, Calvin E. Grogan, Kenneth C. Hammer, Charles A. Waterfield and Michael J. Finn, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CATERPILLAR, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 22, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joseph J. Torres, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant. Michael M. Mulder, Meites, Mulder, Mollica & Glink, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Joseph J. Torres, C.R. Gangemi, Jr., Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois, Steffen N. Johnson, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Michael M. Mulder, Paul W. Mollica, Meites, Mulder, Mollica & Glink, Chicago, Illinois, Elizabeth Alexander, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstrin, Nashville, Tennessee, William T. Payne, John Stember, Pamina Ewing, Stember, Feinstein, Doyle & Payne, LLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jay E. Sushelsky, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

The court delivered a PER CURIAM opinion. MARTIN, J. (p. 415), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

At stake in this interlocutory appeal are the claims of one subclass of plaintiffs in an ongoing class-action lawsuit against Caterpillar for allegedly breaching its promise to provide "lifetime cost-free retiree health care." R.61, ¶ 2. The district court preliminarily enjoined Caterpillar to provide the subclass—275 plaintiffs who retired from a Caterpillar subsidiary between 1992 and 1998—with this benefit. Because...

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