HICKEY v. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.

No. 94-1710.

43 F.3d 941 (1995)

Pete HICKEY; Timothy O'Leary; Charles H. McKnight; Aaron Adams; Brian Adams; Linda Adams; Tony Adams; Michael Adragna; Keith Dean Aldridge; David Aldridge; Thomas H. Altman; Sarah Anderson; Shirley Arms; Hassie Atkins; Frederick Babb; Vicki Babb; Katherine Renee Bailey; Nurudeen Balogun; John David Barton; Frank Batson; Rodney E. Beeks; Cliff Bloise; Deborah B. Benson; Betty S. Boston; Hugh N. Brock, Jr.; Sheila Brooks; Sharon Brown; Jerry W. Bryant; Carla Buchanen; Camelia M. Buckheister; Donald R. Burton; Dianne Butler; Anita F. Byers; Rosie C. Byrd; Debbie A. Cabe; Linda Campbell; James L. Chastain; Jimmy D. Cisson; Kay R. Clay; Chandra Coker; Patricia Ann Copeland; Patsy Cox; Steven W. Cox; Geraleen Crawford; Gregory Cypert; Jerome Dames; Annette Davis; Anthony Bryan Davis; Gail E. Davis; Michael Davis; Miriam C. Davenport; Robert F. Deal; Shirley Dennis; Laura Dight; William Downs; Dan R. Driver; George A. Durham; Brenda B. Durrance; Toni Eaton; David Ellis; Lucy Fair; Larry M. Faust; William Ferrel; Cheryl Filiberti; Shirley J. Fisher; Edna M. Fowler; Kathie A. Gailey; Jane Gagnon; Linda G. Garner; Carl Gerhiser; Teresa A. Gilliam; Brenda Goldsmith; Rosemary Grant; Jimmy Gray; Wendy B. Gray; Barbara Green; Evelyn Green; Linda Green; Polly Green; Carolyn Griffin; R. Briggs Hamilton; Richard Mark Hanvey; Benny J. Hart; Sandra B. Hatcher; Thomas L. Hendricks; Daniel Holcombe; Gary C. Hooper; Martha Jane Hoover; Wayne H. Horne; Larry Hough; Valerie Houston; Carolyn Howell; Rick Huckaby; James Huff; Gail Hussey; Minnie I. Jackson; Michael G. James; Arthur W. Johns; Janice D. Johnson; Leroy C. Johnson; Shannon S. Johnson; Zonnie Jones; Sandra F. Kelly; Jan Kestner; Satish Kinariwala; Tony King; Keith G. Kitchens; Christopher B. Klugh; Edward R. Knipple; Richard Kurtz; Steve Laforest; Matt Lake; Terry M. Landers; Paulette Lane; Rickey Lanford; Anthony Lark; Damon Lashley; Melanie B. Lay; Lee A. Labarron; Helen C. Lee; Marlene Lee; Ray J. Lee; Yolanda L. Lewis; Cynthia E. Lim; Emmanuel Lim; Brenda Lykes; Alan Madewell; Steven R. Madison; Tony Marable; Glynis D. Martin; Susan Martinez; David R. Massengale; Martha E. Masters; Diane Mattox; Peter J. McCauley; Paula M. McDonald; Barbara S. McDowell; Norma McMurray; Janice Messer; Donna M. Mikulis; Deborah Lynn Miller; Nan Minot; Karl Minton; Lorie J. Mitchell; John Monohan; Tina E. Moon; A. Bernard Moore; Terri S. Moore; Donald H. Morasco; Lonnie Mote; Zahoor Mukaddam; Rachel E. Mull; Alma R. Murray; James H. Nabors; Jon O'Brien; Tracy O'Brien; Janice O'Neil; Mavis H. O'Shields; Dave Oakley; Debra Ann Oakley; Dennis W. Orren; Clarence Owens; Kathy Owens; Barbara W. Paden; Dale Page; Edna Page; Ann T. Patterson; James D. Pavluk; Ruby M. Perkins; James H. Phillips; Linda J. Phillips; Wilma J. Phillips; Scott Pinion; Ray Plunkett; Marcus L. Poore; Carolyn J. Poteat; Sharon Tracy Powell; Yvonne L. Price; Laurie Pullen; Sheila Rafkah; Cathy J. Reedy; Frank Regina; Richard W. Reid; Virginia E. Reutzel; Jackie Revis; Gregory S. Rhodes; John G. Rhodes; Freida Wyanette Rice; Joseph P. Roach; Marilyn Roach; Jerome Robinson; Sandra Robinson; Nancy Rothel; James E. Rousey; April Sanders; Wallace E. Sanders; Darlene Sawitski; David H. Schartner; Mary Scribner; Jim Seigo; William C. Servies; Daniel R. Simard; Harold J. Simpson; Phyllis C. Simpson; Mary J. Singleton; Ronda Smith; Rick Snyder; Ken Spencer; Dianne Stewart; Mattie W. Stoddard; James Allen Stone; Larry Strickland; C. L. Sullivan; William C. Theemling; Gary W. Theis; Peggy H. Theis; John Theisen; Gwendolyn G. Thomas; Lee E. Thomas; Nancy B. Thompson; Vicki Townsend; Gary Turner; Lisa Turner; Rodney Turner; Sandra O. Van Gieson; David L. Van Gieson; James A. Vaughn; John D. Waddell; Harriet D. Waddell; Marica Denice Waddell; Patsy Walker; Greg Walls; Lee L. Ware; Jammie Watson; Terry L. Wells; David J. White; Diana White; Lucy B. Wilkins; Betty A. Williams; Otis Williams; Patricia Ann Williams; Clementine Williamson; Phyliss Wilmore; Carolyn Wilson; Linda Wilson; Jimmie K. Wright; Jacquline Yeargin; Keran Yeargin; Joseph M. Young; Nancy Blough; David J. Boiter; Michelle Brown; Charles Carle; James S. Daniels; Laura J. Dupree; Bill Earl; John R. Gallaspie; William Giambrone; Gary L. Johnsen; Dan Kestner; Ben F. Lee; Sylvester C. Lee; Wilfred Leon; Bill Line; Tina A. Mayes; Kendra E. McAlister; Richard W. McCall; Shirley McDaniel; Irene C. Meredith; Alma Lucille Moore; Shirley Y. Neely; Steven L. Perkins; Joe Perry; Richard Reifenheiser; David A. Russell; Kurt Stevens; Mike Strajna; Deborah Stroud; Janice C. White; Pamela M. Williams; Vonda Wilson; Martha Woody; Bernice Wright; David L. Wynn; Craig Rush; Karen S. Walters; Carolyn Allen; Harold Durham; Patty Loftis; Angie Bell-Smith; Bobbie Sanders; Inez Griffin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Bowman McLeod, William David Conner, Haynsworth, Marion, McKay & Guerard, Greenville, SC, for appellants. C. David Vaughan, Vaughan & Murphy, Atlanta, GA, for appellee. ON BRIEF: L. Grey Geddie, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Greenville, SC, for appellee.

Before HALL and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge HALL and Senior Judge PHILLIPS joined.

OPINION

MICHAEL, Circuit Judge:

This is a case brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., against Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital) by a large group of its former employees who seek severance pay under Digital's 1991 Severance Pay and Benefits Plan (Plan). In 1992...

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