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BALLONE v. EASTMAN KODAK CO.

Nos. 357, 358, Dockets 96-7209, 96-7212.

109 F.3d 117 (1997)

Joseph L. BALLONE; John Battey-Sipes; Mary Jane Beardsley; John Benson; Patricia Boddy; Paul John Boerschlein; Peter Borys; Albert Brown; Donald Brown; Gary Burnett; Edward Carlson; Guy Casaceli; Janet M. Christensen; John Cicotta; Finetta Cowman; Robert E. Dean; Joseph Dicicco; Matthew Dipietro; Edward Distler; Richard Docteur; Geraldine Dwaileebe; Lawrence E. Ellis; William R. Foley; Lawrence Forward; Kathleen Gibson; Thelma Gillette; Thomas Grieco; Creola Griffin; Robert Gutberlet; Richard Harter; Frederick Hartman; Carl L. Helbert; E. Bryan Helming; Marilyn Helming; James Hermance; Walter Hogan; James Holyman; Raymond Hunt; Guenther Kaschner; Catherine Kelsey; Anthony J. Kota; Donald Lage; Alvin Lentzer; Thomas Levy; Janice Lucky; John Ludwig; Gerald Manning; Robert Mason; Stuart McClarin; Neil McEachern; Ray Messenger; Edward Miller; Lawrence Minch, Sr.; Wilbur Minges; Dan Mook; William Murdoch, Jr.; Richard Mykins; Robert Nichol, Sr.; Richard Nolte; Charles Peterson; Harriett Pietak; Richard Potter; Judith Quitsch; John Radley; Wanda Radtke; Marie Rasbridge; James Reaves; Everett Rice; Ross Rumfola; Gerard Salber; William Savage; William Schaeffer; Sara Breeze Schutt; Donald Shaner; John Shuryn; Joseph Simpson; Thomas Sloey; Elmwood Snyder; James Thomas; Jack Townsend; James Triou; Eugene Wade; Harvey Warren; Elizabeth Wendt; William Wenzel; Richard Wheaton; Robert Wilson; Lawrence Wolfe; John R. Zeman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EASTMAN KODAK CO.; Kodak Retirement Income Plan Committee; Kodak Retirement Income Plan; Kay R. Whitmore; John R. McCarthy; Cecil D. Quillen, Jr.; Paul Smith; Benefit Plans Committee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Spindelman, Rochester, NY (John F. LaFave, Elizabeth A. Williams, Fix, Spindelman, Brovitz, Turk, Himelein & Shukoff, P.C., Rochester, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lonny H. Dolin, Rochester, NY (Karen R. Castner, Lonny H. Dolin & Associates, P.C., Rochester, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant Zeman.

Eugene Ulterino, Rochester, NY (David L. Hoffberg, J. Nelson Thomas, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, L.L.P., Rochester, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

(Ann Elizabeth Reesman, Robert E. Williams, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, DC, on the brief) for Amicus Curiae Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Before: FEINBERG, LEVAL and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we are called upon to determine the circumstances in which alleged misrepresentations made by an employer to retirement plan beneficiaries about future plan amendments are actionable under the Employees Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a), which imposes a fiduciary duty on retirement plan administrators. Plaintiffs, all former employees of Eastman Kodak Company who retired between January 1 and July...

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