BLANK v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

No. 90-3167.

926 F.2d 1090 (1991)

Margaret C. BLANK, Plaintiff-Counterclaim Defendant-Appellant, Donald E. Alford, et al., Plaintiffs-Counterclaim Defendants, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Subsidiary Companies, Defendants-Counterclaim Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. MacLennan, Kattman, Eshelman & MacLennan, P.A., Jacksonville, Fla., for plaintiff-counterclaim defendant-appellant.

Richard J. Omata, Gregory C. Sisk, Catherine Hendricks, Karr, Tuttle & Campbell, Seattle, Wash., E. Lanny Russell, Smith & Hulsey, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants-counterclaim plaintiff-appellees.

Before CLARK, Circuit Judge, HILL and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, a group a former salaried employees of Bethlehem Steel Corporation ("Bethlehem"), sued Bethlehem and its pension plan when they were denied retirement benefits upon the sale of Bethlehem's Buffalo Tank Division. They claimed that the denial to them of a contingent benefit, entitled the rule-of-65 benefit, violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1145, which governs this employee...

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