RINEHART v. AKERS

Docket No. 11-4232-cv.

722 F.3d 137 (2013)

Alex E. RINEHART, Jo Anne Buzzo, Maria Desousa, Linda Demizio, Monique Fong Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John F. AKERS, Michael L. Ainslie, Thomas H. Cruikshank, Marsha Evans Johnson, Christopher Gent, Roland A. Hernandez, Henry Kaufman, John D. Macomber, Mary Pat Archer, Amitabh Arora, Michael Branca, Evelyne Estey, Adam Feinstein, David Romhilt, Roger S. Berlind, Jerry A. Grundhofer, Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Wendy M. Uvino, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Rifkin , Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP ( Daniel W. Krasner , Gregory M. Nespole , Matthew M. Guiney , Beth A. Landes , Maja Lukic , Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY; Thomas J. McKenna , Gainey & McKenna, New York, NY, on the brief), Interim Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jonathan K. Youngwood ( Janet Gochman , Hiral D. Mehta , on the brief), Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, for the Benefit Committee Defendants-Appellees.

Adam J. Wasserman ( Andrew J. Levander , Kathleen N. Massey , Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Thomas K. Johnson II , J. Ian Downes , Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for all of the Director Defendants-Appellees Other than Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

Patricia M. Hynes , Todd S. Fishman , Allen & Overy LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

Benjamin R. Botts , Attorney ( M. Patricia Smith , 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.

Before: SACK, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, NATHAN, District Judge.


WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants ("Plaintiffs") are former employees of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ("Lehman"), or its subsidiaries, who participated in the Lehman Brothers Savings Plan (the "Plan") and, specifically, in the Lehman Stock Fund (the "LSF"). The Plan is covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. ("ERISA"). Under the Plan, employees of Lehman...

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