CORDOZA v. PACIFIC STATES STEEL CORP.

Nos. 01-16638, 02-15110.

320 F.3d 989 (2003)

Eldon T. CORDOZA, Plaintiff-Appellee, Bruce Train; Hans Lemcke; Theodore Sorensen; Passco Administrative Services, Inc.; Passco Development, LLC, Appellants, v. PACIFIC STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant, and Rust Remedial Services Holding Company, Inc.; Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Union City, Real Parties in Interest-Appellees. Eldon T. Cordoza; John Franco; Theodore Kutsuki; Santos Mora; Eugene Luna; Ray Seccombe, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce Train, Defendant-Appellant, Rust Remedial Services Holding Company, Inc.; Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Union City, Real Parties in Interest-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Goodin, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellants, Bruce Train, Hans Lemcke, Theodore Sorensen, Passco Administrative Services, Inc., and Passco Development Co., LLC.

Arthur Lazear, Oakland, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees, Eldon T. Cordoza, et al.

Charles Reese, Oakland, CA, for real party in interest-appellee, Community Redevelopment Agency-Union City.

Larry W. Telford, San Franciso, CA, and Walter J. Sears, III and Scott Smith, Birmingham, AL, for real party in interest-appellee Rust International Inc.

Tamar Pachter, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Before: McKEOWN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.


McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal comes to us from the midst of lengthy post-judgment proceedings in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case. For nearly two decades, the district court has overseen efforts by a series of special masters to transform an insolvent company's contaminated steel plant site into a means of funding the former steelworkers' medical plan. After other parties accused the special master of serious misconduct, the district court launched...

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