NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC. v. PHILLIPS

Civil No. 07-4803 (JNE/JJG).

594 F.Supp.2d 1075 (2009)

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff/Counterdefendant, and Air Line Pilots Association, Intervenor-Plaintiff/Counterdefendant, v. Raymond B. PHILLIPS, Michael Tanksley, Belmont Beck, Platt Hubbell, Timothy I. Meldahl, Gregory S. Novotny, William J. Riley, and Ralph C. Taylor, Individually, and as Representatives of Persons Similarly Situated, Defendants/Counterclaimants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota.

January 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Tinkham, Esq., Stephen P. Lucke, Esq., and Andrew J. Holly, Esq., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, appeared for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Richard M. Seltzer, Esq., Thomas N. Ciantra, Esq., and Evan Hudson-Plush, Esq., Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, appeared for Intervenor-Plaintiff and Counterdefendant Air Line Pilots Association.

Jeffrey Lewis, Esq., and Nina Wasow, Esq., Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., and Lawrence P. Schaefer, Esq., Schaefer Law Firm, LLC, appeared for Defendants and Counterclaimants Raymond B. Phillips, Michael Tanksley, Belmont Beck, Platt Hubbell, Timothy I. Meldahl, Gregory S. Novotny, William J. Riley, and Ralph C. Taylor, Individually, and as Representatives of Persons Similarly Situated.


ORDER

JOAN N. ERICKSEN, District Judge.

Northwest Airlines, Inc. (Northwest), and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) seek a declaratory judgment against a defendant class of pilots (Pilots) that Northwest's Money Purchase Plan for Pilot Employees (MP3) complies with section 204(b) of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (2000). The Pilots bring counterclaims alleging that the MP3 violates ERISA, the...

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