HARRIS TRUST AND SAV. BANK v. SALOMON BROS. INC.

No. 98-1812.

184 F.3d 646 (1999)

HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, not individually but solely as Trustee for the Ameritech Pension Trust; Ameritech Corporation; and John A. Edwardson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SALOMON BROTHERS INC. and Salomon Brothers Realty Corp., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Jackson (argued), Alexander S. Vesselinovitch, Sari M. Alamuddin, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Warren A. VonSchleicher, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, Stanley A. Walton, Willowbrook, IL, Susan Lichtenstein, Associate General Counsel, Ameritech Corp., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Peter C. Hein (argued), Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY, William F. Conlon, Richard B. Kapnick, Linda T. Ieleja, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before FLAUM, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) prohibits certain transactions between an employee pension plan and its service providers who are deemed "parties in interest" under the Act. In this case we decide whether ERISA provides a private cause of action against a party in interest for engaging in such prohibited transactions.

In the late 1980's defendant Salomon Brothers Inc. set up financing for two motel chains...

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