United States Second Circuit

In a dispute over attorney's fees, the district court's grant of preliminary injunction in favor of plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff's claim to attorney's fees drawn from undistributed vested pension benefits violates ERISA's anti-alienation provision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2009
• Published 02/26/2009

Judges

• LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CABRANES, RAGGI, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory D. Hanley (Christopher S. Olson, on the brief), Kickham Hanley P.C., Royal Oak, MI;  Daniel F. Brown, Damon & Morey LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Fred G. Aten, Jr., Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, Rochester, NY;  Brian T. Ortelere and Joseph B.G. Fay, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA;  Gregory J. Gumina, Chief Benefits Counsel, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.