DAVID v. ALPHIN

No. 11-2181.

704 F.3d 327 (2013)

Elena M. DAVID; Arleen J. Stach; Victor M. Hernandez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. Steele ALPHIN; Amy Woods Brinkley; Edward J. Brown, III; Charles J. Cooley; Richard M. Demartini; Barbara J. Desoer; James H. Hance, Jr.; Liam E. McGee; Eugene M. McQuade; Alvaro G. De Molina; Michael E. O'Neill; Owen G. Shell, Jr.; R. Eugene Taylor; F. William Vandiver, Jr.; Bradford H. Warner; Kenneth D. Lewis; Bank of America Corporation; Bank of America Corporation Corporate Benefits Committee; J. Tim Arnoult; Catherine P. Bessant; Timothy Mayapoulous; Brian T. Moynihan, Defendants-Appellees, and William Barnet, III; Walter E. Massey; John T. Collins; Gary L. Countryman; Paul Fulton; Charles K. Gifford; Thomas J. May; Patricia E. Mitchell; Edward L. Romero; Thomas M. Ryan; O. Temple Sloan, Jr.; Meredith R. Spangler; Robert L. Tillman; Jackie M. Ward; Bank of America Corporation Board of Directors; Frank P. Bramble, Sr.; Tommy R. Franks, Defendants. AARP; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of Labor, Amici Supporting Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 14, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gregory Y. Porter , Bailey & Glasser LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert Leonard Furst , United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Amici Supporting Appellants. Shannon Barrett , O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: James A. Moore , McTigue & Veis LLP, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin L. Bailey , Sherrie A. Armstrong , Bailey & Glasser LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Deanna M. Rice , O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. Mary Ellen Signorille , Jay E. Sushelsky , AARP Foundation Litigation, Melvin R. Radowitz , AARP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae AARP. Israel Goldowitz , Chief Counsel, Charles L. Finke , Deputy Chief Counsel, Paula J. Connelly , Assistant Chief Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. M. Patricia Smith , Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser , Associate Solicitor, Plan Benefits Security, Nathaniel I. Spiller , Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, Stephen A. Silverman , Trial Attorney, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Secretary of Labor.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DAVIS wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge SHEDD joined.


OPINION

DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, Elena M. David, Arleen J. Stach, and Victor Hernandez, are the named representatives of a putative class of participants in two retirement plans sponsored by the Bank of America Corporation ("BOA" or "the Bank"). They brought this civil enforcement action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., alleging that Appellees, the Bank and individual members...

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