WILSON v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Nos. 94-3720 and 94-3779.

55 F.3d 399 (1995)

G. Bruce WILSON; Marco L. Gilliam; William H. Jones; Robert E. McVey; Jerry Mooneyham; Edwin R. Acheson; J. Marlene Adams; Betty E. Aldridge; Barbara Alexander; Jo Ann Altschul; Virginia S. Amyx; Brenda J. Andrews; Sandra K. Anglin; Islo D. Ashmore; Jerry L. Atwood; James D. Bailey; Jimmie F. Bailey; Margaret A. Bailey; Patsy R. Bailey; Jerry F. Baker; John C. Baker; Katherine Baker; Sue A. Barber; William E. Barnes; Joan R. Barnett; James C. Barr; William R. Baum; Betty L. Bays; Rosa Beal; Louis D. Bellard; Rose Marie Bennett; James W. Benton; Dorothy E. Bergmann; Herschel W. Biggs; Lon L. Black; John S. Blackford; Peggy N. Blaksley; Jo Blanset; Joyce E. Bohnert; Elizabeth A. Bond; William Thomas Boothe; Peggy L. Bowen; Terry L. Bowles; B. Ann Bradfield; Donald E. Braun; Leo Brian; Jarold L. Brookshire; Donna L. Brown; Betty L. Browning; C.A. Browning; E. Jean Browning; Sandra Brownlow; Jack W. Burgess; William T. Burke; Martin E. Burlingame; Janice U. Burns; Louise T. Busse; William S. Butler, Jr.; Raymond C. Caldwell; Irma M. Cannas; Mona L. Caradine; Merlene Carlson; Roger Carnaghi; Joyce Carter; Harrell J. Cathey; Audrey Janet Chadwick; Jary A. Christy; Joan M. Christy; Diana M. Cisneros-Gonzalez; Clifton L. Clark; Karen Clay-Sandifer; Ted Clemmons; Evelyn Clifton; Nina A. Coleman; Hazel D. Collvins; Kelly D. Colwell; Gonzalo L. Cortinas; Loretta Cotter; Ronald C. Cotter; Phyllis Cottrell; Patrick E. Creswell; Barbara A. Crookshank; Gary M. Cross; Rojean Cull; Donna L. Cummings; Betty Daily; Lloyd A. Dalton; Jean M. Daniel; Carl I. Davis; Carroll A. Davis; Margie Davis; Zane Davis; Lavonne L. Deck; Amanda C. Deicke; Joan M. Deimeke; Harold R. Delaney; Bobby L. Dell; Donald R. Dennis; Barbara I. Desanto; Maria M. Diaz; Carl Edward Dinkins; Patsy R. Dixon; Jack E. Dobbs; Patsy J. Doolen-Drusch; Eugene W. Dooley; Phyllis A. Dooley; C.M. Dorries; Johnie J. Dowling; Patrick A. Drayton; Neysa Joan Dreesen; William R. Dunbar; James R. Duncan; Burnie Joe Dunn; Dorothy E. Dziadek; James F. Easterling; Thomas Q. Ebanues; Richard L. Ebrey; Emma Jean Edsall; W.H. Eldridge; Chloe A. Elliott; James L. Elswick; G.K. Evans; Virgil T. Faith; Nayda D. Farkas; Robert J. Farkas; Louis A. Faust, Jr.; Ronay C. Ferber; Ada Blaine Ferrell; Joe A. Ferrill; Gloria Joyce Fiala; Eugene F. Fischer; Grover M. Fisher; Gerald D. Fournier; Charles S. Fowler; Georgie M. Gardiner; Glenda Garison; Lloyd G. Giebler; Kenneth R. Givan; Bobby D. Glover; Gene G. Godsy; Edith Hope Hill Graham; Woodrow E. Grayson, Jr.; Glendel M. Greer; Shirley J. Griffith; Dale R. Griffy; Oscar C. Hairell; Alton M. Hall; Adalbert A. Hammes; James A. Handloser; Donna G. Harmon; Edna J. Harmon; Martha P. Harper; William E. Harper; A. Sue Harris; Lloyd E. Harris; Mary V. Harris; Carolee Harshfield; Linda B. Haught; Odis G. Hanes; Kenneth J. Heflin; Sue Hendricks-Cathey; Harold Henning; Charles E. Hensel; Linda Sue Hill; Virgina Hill; Millard David Hinchman; Maynard T. Hoffman; Sam E. Hogan; Leonard Hollinger; E. Charlene Hollingsworth; Carol A. Holmes; Sandra Hoppe; Meredith A. Housel; Shirley J. Howard-Henzlik; R. Charles Hubert; L. Earl Hughes; Edward E. Huling, Jr.; Harlene Hungerford; Winford Hurd; Fred L. Imhoff; John W. Jackson; Melba J. Jacobus; Wanda J. Jefferson; Norman W. Jennings; Benjamin R. Johnson; Evelyn K. Johnson; Mary Johnson; Richard L. Johnson; Shirley D. Johnson; Curtis B. Johnston; Wallace E. Johnston; N. Anne Joines; Charles D. Jones; Valda M. Jones; Kenneth J. Joplin; Kenneth E. Kellogg; Jack L. Kemper; Joanne Kerns; D. Jack King; Patricia King; Jack W. Kirkwood; B. Joanne Knight-Gebhart; Mabel E. Knippa; Patricia J. Konert; M. Claudia Kress; Victor M. Kroenke; Tommy C. Lair; Helen L. Lamkins; Patricia A. Landsberger; Walter E. Larson; Joyce E. Lewis; Thelma F. Lewis; Patricia A. Linn; Herbert Glenn Lowry; Patricia M. Lumby; Willie R. Lynch; Evelyn P. Madison; Bernard J. Mandl; Mary Lou Marcy-Osborn; David J. Marmonti; Robert R. Marshall; Phillipa D. Matthews; Allen L. McCann; Marcia McClinton; Albert J. McCoy; Marian B. McCray; John O. McGuire; Reuben H. McKenzie; Clifford R. McKiddy; Robert E. McNamara; Arthur Wood McNaughton; Norman E. McNiel; Doris A. Metz; Theresa A. Meyer; William L. Meyer; Helen L. Miller; Robert L. Miller; Janice M. Minger; M.J. Minihan; Ramona A. Mirt; Philip E. Moffitt; Bernice E. Mohesky; Jeanette D. Moon; Carl Moore; Anthony C. Morgan; Lavoice Morgan; Betty Morris; Doris D. Moss; Mary Murphree; Roy B. Neal; Barbara G. Nelle; Kenneth W. Nelson; Roy J. Newmann; Donna L. Nusser; Alice V. O'Bleness; Doris E. Olson; Johnnie G. O'Neal; Fred E. Owen; Renata A. Parker; Monte B. Paschall; Lawrence A. Payne; Marcia L. Payne; Patricia E. Payton; John G. Pearn; James O. Perkins; John T. Perkins; Ruth L. Perryman; Christian R. Peter; Joe V. Pike, Jr.; Phillip A. Pitzer; Charles L. Plank; Edna F. Poettgen; Donny B. Pohl; Robert L. Poole; Samuel J. Potter; John T. Powell; Carol M. Powers; Roger D. Prelesnik; Norman A. Pullen; Barbara Purser; Robert L. Pursur; Shirley Y. Rahn; Cecil Marie Ramsey; N. Jeanne Ramsey; Sammy J. Ramsey; Hughwill Rapier; Guynell Read; Allan F. Reinartz; A. Melvin Reynolds; Richard D. Reynolds; Eva Nell Rhodes; Ethyl B. Riggs; Lewis C. Riley; Darlene Rittel; Ivan Roach; Loretta Roberts; John H. Robinson; Robert E. Robinson; John W. Roetzer; Mary Evelyn Rogers; Mable V. Rushing; William A. Rutledge; Marian R. Salsbury; Jesse Wayne Sanders; Kenneth J. Sapp; Marjorie L. Schaeffer; Donna D. Schreimann; Don Schuette; John J. Schwartz; Charlotte Schwoerke; Loraine A. Segraves; Jackie L. Sellers; Theron W. Shaw; Wayne O. Sheets; Barbara A. Shellenberg; Jean Shelton; Robert L. Shelton; A. Carlene Shipley; Billie D. Simler; Betty Skipworth; Blanche M. Smith; Gary A. Smith; Gordon S. Smith; Keith F. Smothers; Saudra N. Songer; Carole A. Spangler; R.H. Spencer; Joseph D. Spillers; Norma Jean Stalcup; Helen I. Steele; Karen K. Steele; Doris M. Stegman; Milton L. Steiner; Stephanie C. Stephens; Shirley Strnard; Carolyn E. Strong; John T. Summers; Luther Hugh Summers; Nora Summers; Estha L. Talley; Buddy W. Taylor; Herbert O. Taylor; Charlotte Techlin-Hortmann; John O. Thies; Glenda S. Tidwell; Patricia Tidwell; Thelma Timpson; Samuel Tinner; Shirley N. Toon; Bill D. Turman; Eugene B. Turner; Marlene M. Turner; Bernard G. Turney; Frank C. Vana; Marlene K. Vanscyoc; Alvis D. Vest; Daniel C. Viehmann; O. Eugene Vignery; David L. Wade-Meyer, Sr.; Marcella A. Wagener; Joseph G. Waggoner, Jr.; Fern Waitschies; Robert G. Walker; Carroll D. Walls; Robert E. Walls; Barbara A. Ward; John R. Warren; Rex I. Warrick; F. Dean Wasem; Glenda Lee Weaver; Leonard F. Weber; James J. Weidlich; Freda E. Welch; Roy D. Welch; Harold M. Wellborn; Gerald C. Wentzel; Billie S. West; Joe P. Westervelt; Judy D. Whisler; Phillip D. White; Georgia Wiar; Lloyd D. Wilburn; Constance Williams; Johnnie Williams; Mary E. Wilson; William E. Wilson, Jr.; Ben J. Woods; Norman Buford Word; Gerald Lee Worley; John R. Wrap; Irene Wyatt; Norbert F. Youngers; Dolores M. Zajac; Doris A. Metz; Dolores M. Siggs; Willa Ann Nunn; Darlene A. Claypool; Joan E. Harris; Curtis H. Ingle; Patsy A. Rowland; Marah Lavvorn; Janet K. Ferguson, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Missouri corporation; SBC Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation, formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation; Southwestern Bell Corporation Management Pension Plan; Robert A. Dickemper, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1995.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied July 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Dempsey, St. Louis, MO, argued (Leonard Cervantes, on the brief), for appellants.

Christian Andre Bourgeacq, St. Louis, MO, argued for appellees.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge, MURPHY, Circuit Judge, and DAVIS, District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied in No. 94-3720 July 6, 1995.*

DIANA E. MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, former management employees of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (SWBT) who accepted the terms of a severance incentive plan offered in 1990, filed this action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et. seq., claiming that SWBT; its parent company, SBC...

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