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WEIR v. FEDERAL ASSET DISPOSITION ASSN.

No. 95-10877.

123 F.3d 281 (1997)

James E. WEIR, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of all Former Employees of the Dallas Office of the Federal Asset Disposition Association ("FADA"); William Ferguson, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of all Former Employees of the Dallas Office of the Federal Asset Disposition Association ("FADA"); Pamela Bender, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of all Former Employees of the Dallas Office of the Federal Asset Disposition Association ("FADA"); Shirley Albright; Eleanor M. Bates; Melinda Benton; John B. Bills; Brenda S. Blume; Fred A. Brown; Mozella L. Brown; William P. Clements; Edgar Allen Cruthirds; Ronda R. Decker; Valerie M. Farmer; Karen S. Fitzgerald; Jackie L. Flannagan; Toi B. Forswall; Yolanda Franks; Lori Lee Frantz-Burgin; James Steve Gerhardt; Bonni K. Gibson; Gwendolyn C. Giesen; Patricia Ann Golden; Priscilla Gordon-Wright; Gregory Gormley; Janet Gormley; C. Kay Gough; Deborah Hancock; Paul M. Harris; Susan Deneed Hasek; Lindsay Beth Haynes; Laurie Lee Hilderbrand; Monette J. Howell; Mary Beth Hunt; Patti D. Jackson; Mary E. Johnson; Sally Kibler; Kimberly W. Kirkendoll; Kristi A. Knorpp; Craig Alan Koenig; Kathleen G. Kovatch; R. Scot Lange; Shelly Lange; Britt Lemmons; Stephen C. Massanelli; Jean Matney; Jimmy E. May; Isqa Lylah Mclarty; Blair G. Mercer, Jr; Pamela F. Mitchell; James Weston Moffett; Thomas M. Pacha; Thomas R. Phillips; Abdel-Ilah Rahmoune; Cheryl D. Robinson; Pauline R. Roeder; Belinda Baxter Rogers; Lawrence A. Rothrock; Justina M. Sansom; Kimberly A. Saunooke; Yvonne E. Scobedo; Robert B. Shults; Craig B. Smith, Dorothy E. Snodgrass; Sue J. Sparks; Richard R. Spies; Kenneth Joseph Springfield; Tracey L. Talley; Gary W. Tallon; Connie Thesman, Ms; Sandy Wagnor; Denise Enise Wall; Sherry Lynn Watson; Genine A. Weiss; Bruce Wheeless; Debra S. Williams; V. Kay Williams; Valerie A. Williams; Richard D. Wilson; Diane P. Wood; Barry C. Wren; Thomas G. Zimmerman; Joseph Zorn, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FEDERAL ASSET DISPOSITION ASSN; Steven A. Seelig, Individually and as Director, FADA Oversight/Dissolution for the Resolution Trust Corporation and in his capacity as Fiduciary of the Retention Pay and Benefits Policies Issued by FADA; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Federal Asset Disposition Association; The FADA Retention Pay And Benefits Policies, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas K. Magary, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Paul E. Ridley, Wolin, Ridley & Miller, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees, Federal Asset Disposition Ass'n, F.D.I.C., and FADA Retention Pay & Benefits Policies.

Richard Montague, Pierre-Richard St. Hilaire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Steven A. Seelig, Individually and as Director, FADA Oversight/Dissolution for the Resolution Trust Corporation and in his capacity as Fiduciary of the Retention Pay and Benefits Policies Issued by FADA, Defendant-Appellee.

Before JOLLY, DUHÉ and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, eighty-three former employees of the Federal Asset Disposition Association, filed a class action suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., seeking benefits they claim are owed to them under their employer's severance plans. The district court denied the challenge. For reasons that follow, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

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