HUMMELL v. S. E. RYKOFF & CO.

Nos. 79-3165, 79-3178.

634 F.2d 446 (1980)

Burton H. HUMMELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. S. E. RYKOFF & CO., a corporation; D. M. Hansen, as Administrator of the S. E. Rykoff & Co. Profit-Sharing Trust Plan and S. E. Rykoff & Co. Amended Profit-Sharing Plan; Roger W. Coleman, as a member of the Advisory Committee of the S. E. Rykoff & Co. Profit-Sharing Trust Plan and S. E. Rykoff & Co. Amended Profit-Sharing Plan; and Samuel H. Maslon, as a member of the Advisory Committee of the S. E. Rykoff & Co. Profit-Sharing Trust Plan and S. E. Rykoff & Co. Amended Profit-Sharing Plan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted November 17, 1980.

Decided December 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Grebow, Cruikshank, Antin & Grebow, Beverly Hills, Cal., for Hummell.

Hyman Edelman, Maslon, Kaplan, Edelman, Borman, Brand & McNulty, Minneapolis, Minn., for Hansen.

Before WRIGHT and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, Senior District Judge.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants S. E. Rykoff and Co., et al (Rykoff) appeal the district court's determination that the anticompetitive forfeiture clause in the S. E. Rykoff & Co. Profit-Sharing Trust Plan (Plan) violates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. (1975). Appellee Hummell cross-appeals for attorneys' fees. We affirm in part and remand in part.

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