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UNION PACIFIC R.R. CO. v. BECKHAM

Nos. 97-1783, 97-1791.

138 F.3d 325 (1998)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY; Missouri Pacific Railroad Company; Union Pacific Corporation; Missouri-Kansas-Texas System Pension Plan For Non-Agreement Employees, by Ursula Fairbairn, Barbara Schaefer, and James Young, in their capacity as the pension committee, Appellants, v. Bryan L. BECKHAM; Gary K. Bradshaw; William E. Dixon; Mike L. Eudy; Marshall W. Hales; Billy Joe Harmon; James M. Hentschel; Carl W. Holem; James D. Miller; Cecil Rhodes, Jr.; Paul J. Richter; Daniel A. Witte, Appellees, Wyatt Company, The; Towers Perrin, Interested Parties, Pension Plan For Salaried Employees of Union Pacific Corporation and Affiliates, Defendant, Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae, Bryan L. Beckham; Gary K. Bradshaw; William E. Dixon; Mike L. Eudy; Marshall W. Hales; Billy Joe Harmon; James M. Hentschel; Carl W. Holem; James D. Miller; Cecil Rhodes, Jr.; Paul J. Richter; Daniel A. Witte, Appellees, Union Pacific Corporation; Missouri-Kansas-Texas System Pension Plan For Non-Agreement Employees; Pension Committee of the MKT Plan; Named Fiduciary-Plan Administration of the UP Plan (The "UP Plan Administrator"), Appellants. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY; Missouri Pacific Railroad Company; Union Pacific Corporation; Missouri-Kansas-Texas System Pension Plan For Non-Agreement Employees, by Ursula Fairbairn, Barbara Schaefer, and James Young, in their capacity as the pension committee, Appellees, v. Bryan L. BECKHAM; Gary K. Bradshaw; William E. Dixon; Mike L. Eudy; Marshall W. Hales; Billy Joe Harmon; James M. Hentschel; Carl W. Holem; James D. Miller; Cecil Rhodes, Jr.; Paul J. Richter; Daniel A. Witte, Appellants, Wyatt Company, The; Towers Perrin, Interested Parties, Pension Plan For Salaried Employees of Union Pacific Corporation and Affiliates, for Salaried Employees of Union Pacific Corporation and Affiliates, Defendant, Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae, Bryan L. Beckham; Gary K. Bradshaw; William E. Dixon; Mike L. Eudy; Marshall W. Hales; Billy Joe Harmon; James M. Hentschel; Carl W. Holem; James D. Miller; Cecil Rhodes, Jr.; Paul J. Richter; Daniel A. Witte, Appellants, Union Pacific Corporation; Missouri-Kansas-Texas System Pension Plan For Non-Agreement Employees; Pension Committee of the MKT Plan; Named Fiduciary-Plan Administration of the UP Plan (The "UP Plan Administrator"), Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay T. Smith, Washington, DC, argued, Michael S. Horne and Michael A. Carrier, Washington, DC, on the brief, for Appellants.

Katherine S. Kamen, Washington, DC, argued, Edward A. Scallet and Frank Cummings, Washington, DC, on the brief, for Appellees.

Before McMILLIAN, MAGILL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Employers and their employees have brought this interlocutory appeal and cross-appeal of the district court's grant of partial summary judgment on claims and cross-claims for declaratory relief regarding the employers' interpretations of their ERISA pension plans. The district court held that the employees' cross-claim challenges, filed in 1994, to the employers' 1988 interpretations of their plans were time-barred, but that the cross-claim...

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