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NEVILL v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 86-5776.

835 F.2d 209 (1987)

Benjamin NEVILL; E.H. Bruist; J.W. Books; T.D. Imgrund; J.A. Pryor; G.M. Webster, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Bostwick, Bostwick & Ackerman, Santa Monica, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

L. Chris Butler, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before WALLACE, SCHROEDER and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, six former employees of appellee Shell Oil Company ("Shell"), filed an action against Shell alleging violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") and raising several state law claims based on Shell's having denied them severance benefits after a corporate move. The district court held that ERISA applied, that ERISA preempted the state law claims, and that, under ERISA, the denial of severance benefits to...

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