BERLIN v. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Nos. 87-1475, 87-1478.

858 F.2d 1154 (1988)

Frank M. BERLIN, Plaintiff-Appellant (87-1475), Norbert A. Ogden, Milton A. Hartman, James K. Husk, M. Jean Kazlauskaus, Theodore J. Reuther, Charles G. Cook, William Reno, Oscar L. Cox, Henry Harrower, David R. Henderson, Shirley A. Hunt, Geraldine Rivard, Fred Schmekel, John Dunstone, Theresa Orjada, Chester Schuster, Kenneth Young, Roman S. Grucz, Andrew Lutenski, Herman Stuedemann, Robert Barnes, George Cappell, Ralph J. Banner, Alena Higgins, and Carolyn P. Thiede, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants (87-1478), v. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Michigan Corporation, and Dan Grady, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley A. Carl, W. Merritt Jones, Jr., Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait, Detroit, Mich., Robert B. Stevenson (argued), Law Offices of Robert B. Stevenson, Ann Arbor, Mich., Francis M. Fitzgerald, Barbier, Petersmarck, Tolleson, Mead, Paige & Carlin, P.C., Mt. Clemens, Mich., John F. O'Grady, Saginaw, Mich., Theresa Smith Lloyd, Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, Mark R. Ulicny, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert Vercruysse, Gloria A. Hage, Constance Ettinger (argued), Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY and MILBURN, Circuit Judges, and CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.


MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants in No. 87-1478, a class action, appeal the judgment of the district court granting the motion of defendants-appellees Michigan Bell Telephone ("MBT") and Dan Grady, Vice President-Personnel at MBT, for summary judgment on plaintiffs' claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. Plaintiff-appellant in No. 87-1475, Frank M. Berlin, appeals the summary judgment...

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