IN RE CITIGROUP ERISA LITIGATION

Docket No. 09-3804-cv.

662 F.3d 128 (2011)

In re CITIGROUP ERISA LITIGATION. Stephen Gray, James Bolla, and Samier Tadros, Lead Plaintiffs-Appellants, Sandra Walsh, Anton K. Rappold, and Alan Stevens, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Citigroup Inc., Citibank, N.A., The Plans Administration Committee, The Plans Investment Committee, Charles O. Prince, Robert E. Rubin, Jorge Bermudez, Michael Burke, Steve Calabro, Larry Jones, Faith Massingale, Thomas Santangelo, Alisa Seminara, Richard Tazik, James Costabile, Robert Grogan, Robin Leopold, Glenn Regan, Christine Simpson, Timothy Tucker, Leo Viola, Donald Young, Marcia Young, and John Does 1-20, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 19, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc I. Machiz , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Philadelphia, PA ( Robert I. Harwood , Samuel K. Rosen , Tanya Korkhov , Harwood Feffer LLP, New York, NY; Marian P. Rosner , Andrew E. Lencyk , James Kelly-Kowlowitz , Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lewis Richard Clayton , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Brad S. Karp , Susanna Michele Buergel , Douglas M. Pravda , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Lawrence B. Pedowitz , Jonathan M. Moses , John F. Lynch , Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Thomas Tso , Attorney ( Deborah Greenfield , Acting Deputy Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser , Associate Solicitor for Plan Benefits Security, Elizabeth Hopkins , Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, on the brief), United States Department of Labor, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor.

Jay E. Sushelsky , AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC ( Melvin Radowitz , AARP, Washington, DC), for amicus curiae AARP.

Ellen M. Doyle , Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA ( Rebecca M. Hamburg , National Employment Lawyers Association, San Francisco, CA; Jeffrey Lewis , Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson P.C., Oakland, CA), for amicus curiae National Employment Lawyers Association.

Ira G. Rosenstein , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Ira D. Hammerman , Kevin M. Carroll , Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Washington, DC; Joseph Liburt , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Menlo Park, CA), for amicus curiae Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

Charles C. Jackson , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Chicago, IL ( David Ackerman , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Chicago, IL; John A. Kober , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY; Jamie M. Kohen , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, New York, NY), for amicus curiae ESOP Association.

Thomas L. Cubbage III ( John M. Vine ), Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae ERISA Industry Committee and American Benefits Council.

Judge STRAUB dissents in part and concurs in part in a separate opinion.


JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, participants in retirement plans offered by defendants Citigroup Inc. and Citibank, N.A., and covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sidney H. Stein, Judge) dismissing their ERISA class action complaint.1 Plan documents...

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