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TRUSTEES OF CONST. v. REDLAND INS. CO.

No. 04-16380.

460 F.3d 1253 (2006)

TRUSTEES OF the CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND LABORERS HEALTH AND WELFARE TRUST; Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Joint Pension Trust; Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Vacation Trust; Trustees for the Southern Nevada Laborers Local 872 Training Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. REDLAND INSURANCE COMPANY; Lake Mead Constructors, a joint venture between Kiewit Western Co., a Delaware corporation, and Gilbert Western Corp.; American Motorists Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees, v. Summit Landscape Companies, Inc., a California corporation; South Shores Residential and Commercial Development Corp., a California corporation, Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Laborers International Union of North America Local 872; Jose Juan Cruz; Herbiberto Marin Garcia; Arturo P. Gonzales; Jesus C. Gonzales; Raul Gutierrez, Jr.; Jose Luis Jauregui-R; Deron C. Johnson; Diaz Edgar Lopez; Pedro Martinez-Diaz; Orthon Medina; Sergio Robles-Cabanilla; Jose Ruiz-Medina; Ignacio Medina Ruiz; Manuel Quintero; Pablo Cardenas-Manzano Armando Castro; Alejandro Corona; Sean Fowler; Victor Gillen; Adam Jacome; Alvaro Jacome; Maris Linares-Balanos, Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 30, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam P. Segal and Michael A. Kristof, Schreck Brignone Godfrey, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellants.

Gregory E. Smith, Smith & Kotchka, Las Vegas, NV; Thanh Nguyen, the Rodarti Group, Aliso, Viejo, CA; Eric A. Stovall, Reno, NV; Jonathan E. Van Cleave, Irvine, CA, and John P. Carpenter, Lake Mead Constructors, Omaha, NE, for the appellees.

Joseph A. Cardella & Thanh Nguyen, the Rodarti Group, Aliso Viejo, CA, and Brent Carson, Winner & Carson, Las Vegas, NV, for the third-party plaintiffs-appellees.

Gregory E. Smith, Smith & Kotchka, Las Vegas, NV, and Jonathan E. Van Cleave, Irvine, CA, for the third-party defendants-appellees.

Before: RYMER, W. FLETCHER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs/Appellants ("the Joint Trustees") prevailed in an action to collect delinquent benefit contributions owed to trusts established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"). The Joint Trustees then sought an award of "reasonable attorney's fees and costs of the action" under ERISA pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(2)(D). The district court granted some of the requested fees, but it refused to allow any...

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