CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC. v. RATCLIFF

No. 97-3031.

141 F.3d 1405 (1998)

CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC.; Kansas City Star Company; the Capital Cities Publishing Pension Plan; Ronald J. Doerfler, David J. Vondrak, Warren Salerno, in their capacity as Administrative Committee of the Capital Cities Publishing Pension Plan, and as Employee Benefits Committee of the Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. Savings & Investment Plan; the Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. Savings & Investment Plan; the Kansas City Star Company Group Insurance Plan; Robert C. Woodworth, Wesley R. Turner, James L. Payne, Dell Campbell, Arthur S. Brisbane, Ralph W. Rowe, R. Richard Good, Clark M. Lambert, H. Kent Simocosky, Peggy Ginther Rush, in their capacity as the Kansas City Star Company's Benefits Committee; The Kansas City Star Spending Account Program; Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Rockie RATCLIFF, Ernie Arnote, and Paul Wooten, Defendants-Appellants, Robert G. HUTSELL, David E. Newman, Gordon S. Wright, Gilbert L. Mitchell, Bradley L. McElhaney, Michael K. Shepherd, Michael Shumacher, Janet Irwin, Cato Sims, Jr., Ronald D. Wright, Teresa A. Todd, Roger Gatschet, Kevin B. Clark, Paul Vincent, Rockie Ratcliff, Linda Inglehart, Ralph Smith, Ruth V. Cornett, Harvey A. Stephens, David Kirkpatrick, John C. Fox, Ernie Arnote, Pat Caskey, Roger W. Dean, Tom Hoover, Donald Miesner, Tom Palmer, Michael Piedmonte, Craig A. Robinson, Paul Trull, Paul Wooten, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The KANSAS CITY STAR COMPANY; Capital Cities Media, Inc.; Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.; Capital Cities Publishing Pension Plan; Capital Cities//ABC, Inc. Savings and Investment Plan; the Kansas City Star Company Employee Group Insurance Plan, and the Kansas City Star Company Spending Account Program, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Bjerg, Seigfreid, Bingham, Levy, Selzer & Gee, P.C., Kansas City, MO (Rachel H. Baker, Seigfreid, Bingham, Levy, Selzer & Gee, P.C., Kansas City, MO; R. Frederick Walters and J. Brett Milbourn, Walters, Bender & Strohbehn, P.C., Kansas City, MO, with him on briefs) for Appellants.

Michael S. Horne, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC (Joseph R. Colantuono, Overland Park, KS; Jeffrey B. Coopersmith, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, with him on brief) for Appellees.

Before ANDERSON, BALDOCK, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals arise under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 ("ERISA"), and involve two groups of parties: those collectively known as "the Star" (Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., The Kansas City Star Company, the Star's four ERISA Plans and the ERISA Plans' claims committees, which had filed a declaratory judgment action against three newspaper carriers/delivery agents...

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