ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE v. ROBINSON

No. 97-5958.

164 F.3d 981 (1999)

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SEA RAY EMPLOYEES' STOCK OWNERSHIP AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Daniel ROBINSON, et al. (Class I), Defendants-Appellants, Sharon Baldock, et al. (Class II), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan D. Rhea, Arnett, Draper & Hagood, Knoxville, TN, Herbert W. Krueger, James D. Holzhauer (argued and briefed), Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

E.H. Rayson (argued and briefed), John C. Burgin, Jr. (briefed), William P. Snyder (briefed), Kramer, Rayson, Leake, Rodgers & Morgan, Knoxville, TN, for Daniel Robinson.

E.H. Rayson (argued and briefed), William P. Snyder (briefed), for Mike Dominguez, William Skinner, Lisa Moore, Cheryl Elliott, Ricky Taylor, Jerry Massey, James Barnes, Sue Cooke, Ralph Jones, Scott Lyons, Vicki Hardenburg, Tim Carroll, Benny Householder, Randy Garner, Benjamin Williams, Steven Blair, Robert Markwalter, Lisa Boyer, Samuel Adams and Jerry Hancock.

Jonathan D. Reed (argued and briefed), Michael T. McClamroch (briefed), Joe Mont McAfee (briefed), Egerton, McAfee, Armistead & Davis, Knoxville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: KENNEDY and COLE, Circuit Judges; RUSSELL, District Judge.


COLE, Circuit Judge.

At issue in this appeal is whether the layoffs at Sea Ray Boats, Inc. between 1989 and 1991 constituted a partial termination of the company's stock ownership and profit sharing plan ("Plan"), governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Sea Ray's administrative committee ("Committee") concluded that the company had not terminated the Plan. Upon review, the district court granted...

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