HILL v. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

No. 18-14026.

971 F.3d 1321 (2020)

Willie HILL, Russel Smith, Peter Collins, Wilbur Crear, Dean Davidson, Verge Henton, Jesse Brown, David Holmes, Robert Hudson, Shirley Kennard, Roy McLin, Shirley Medley, Marilyn Mitchell, Bill Moore, Mark Parker, Rosalind Pettigrew, Eric Shaw, Terry Carter, Ronald Wallace, Michael Watkins, Winifred Wells, Sr., Jerry Wayne Williams, Ronnie Woods, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF MUELLER GROUP LLC, Appeals Committee of the Employee Benefits Administrative Committee of Mueller Group LLC, Mueller Group LLC Pension Plan for Selected Employees, Mueller Group LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miles Clayborn Williams , David P. Martin , Attorney, The Martin Law Group, LLC, Tuscaloosa, AL, Tybe Ann Brett , Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

John P. Brumbaugh , Leslie M. Bassett , David Tetrick, Jr. , King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Stephen Edward Brown , Bressler Amery & Ross, PC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before BRANCH and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HUCK, District Judge.


Willie Hill and twenty-two other appellants (the "employees") are hourly workers at a pipe factory in Bessemer, Alabama. They participate in a pension plan that provides Special Early Retirement ("SER") benefits if they are laid off or terminated by a permanent plant shutdown before their normal retirement age, after meeting...

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