BARTLING v. FRUEHAUF CORP.

Nos. 93-3281, 93-3324.

29 F.3d 1062 (1994)

Philip BARTLING; Lee E. Anthony; Jim Anon; David Armstrong; Carl Benefield; James Bushu; Don Capper; Howard Collingsworth; Ron Craig; Lloyd Daugherty; Nelson Deane; Jerry DeMent; Larry Donohue; Richard Dawson; Philip Edwards; Sam Egger; James Fairchild; William Einnell; Melvin Foster; Ernest Frazier; LaRue Gregory; Thedore Grinvalds; Robert Grubbs; John Geyer; Maxine Harris; Harry Hartzell; Don Headlee; Richard Hines; Darrel Holly; John Huffman; Dianne Jordan; Thomas Lease; Robert Lovell; Michael Mason; Rick May; Ronald McBee; Vaughn McKee; William Monroe; Rodger Myers; David Ogle; Larry Porter; Edward Pressnell; Betty Rooney; William Sark; Ed Smith; James Standard; John Steiger; Thomas Stevens; Walter Strange; James Vest; John Walters; Robert Wilkerson; Thomas Wilkins; Robert Wilson, Jr.; Stanley Woodhouse; Joseph Wren; William Zinkhorn; John Dotson; Linda Hartzell; Ronald C. Fitzwater; Caren S. LeMaster; Jon Powers; John Yeatts; Don Rigney, Sr.; Don Warfield; Frank Wildman; Helen J. Ream; Eugene C. Haerr, Jr.; Walter R. Egger; James Doyle; Carl White; Deborah Cooke; Marlin Reynolds; Robert Burk; John L. Connors; Merrie Lou Tindall; Roanna M. Griffith; and Carol S. Palmer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. FRUEHAUF CORPORATION; Kelsey-Hayes Company; Retirement Committee of Fruehauf Corporation; Plan Administrator of Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Kelsey-Hayes Company; Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Kelsey-Hayes Company; and Kelsey-Hayes Company Separation Allowance Plan for Salaried Employees of Kelsey-Hayes Company, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, Citibank, N.A.; Irving Trust Company, Trustee of Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Kelsey-Hayes Company, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 19, 1994.

As Amended September 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Markus (argued and briefed), Ronald L. Kahn (briefed), Ulmer & Berne, Cleveland, OH, Ken C. Kotecha, Pennington & Kotecha, Springfield, OH, for Philip Bartling.

Jeffrey G. Heuer, Brian G. Shannon (briefed), Thomas H. Williams, Alexander Bradgon (argued), Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, Detroit, MI, for Fruehauf Corporation, Kelsey-Hayes Co. and Kelsey-Hayes Sep Plan.

Before: JONES and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges; and GILMORE, Senior District Judge.


AMENDED OPINION

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, 78 individual salaried non-bargaining unit employees of what used to be the SPECO Division of the Kelsey-Hayes Company ("Kelsey-Hayes"), brought this ERISA action against: Kelsey-Hayes; its parent, the Fruehauf Corporation ("Fruehauf"); its former employee benefit pension plan ("Pension Plan"); the Retirement Plan administrator, the Retirement Committee of Fruehauf Corporation ("Committee");...

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