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HAMILTON v. WASHINGTON STATE PLUMBING & PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY PENSION PLAN

Nos. 04-35526, 04-35828, 04-35798.

433 F.3d 1091 (2006)

David HAMILTON; Sarah Hamilton, a minor, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WASHINGTON STATE PLUMBING & PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY PENSION PLAN; Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund; Western Washington U.A. Supplemental Pension Trust, Defendants-Appellants, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-intervenor-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, guardian of Sarah Hamilton, Plaintiff, and David Hamilton; Sarah Hamilton, a minor, Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-cross-defendant, Mary Hamilton, Defendant-intervenor, and Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Pension Plan, Local Union # 32, Defendant-cross-defendant-Appellant. Linda Oppegaard, guardian of Sarah Hamilton, Plaintiff, and David Hamilton; Sarah Hamilton, a minor, Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, Defendant-cross-defendant-Appellant, and Mary Hamilton, Defendant-intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 10, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas P. Scarpelli, Jr., Carney Badley & Spellman, P.S., Seattle, WA; Jerome C. Scowcroft, Scowcroft Law Office, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Jonathan P. Meier, Sirianni Youtz Meier & Spoonemore, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-intervenor-appellant.

Before RICHARD D. CUDAHY, T.G. NELSON, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge.

The alphabet soup world of pension benefits has spawned a dizzying array of acronyms, like ERISA, QDRO, and QPSA, and a complex web of interrelated statutory provisions. In a case of first impression, our challenge is to cut through the dense language to figure out what Congress meant in terms of surviving spouse benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 88 Stat. 832, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001

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