United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit for pension benefits under ERISA, judgment in favor of defendant-Plan Administrator is reversed where the district court erred when it ruled that plaintiff's claims were barred by res judicata.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2005
• Published 05/11/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER, MOTZ, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Patrick Stanley Cassidy, CASSIDY, Myers, Cogan, Voegelin & Tennant, L.C., Wheeling, West Virginia, For Appellants.  John Porco, Schrader, Byrd & Companion, P.L.L.C., Wheeling, West Virginia;  Cynthia B. Jones, Steptoe & Johnson, Morgantown, West Virginia, For Appellees.   On Brief:Thomas M. Cunningham, Cassidy, Myers, Cogan, Voegelin & Tennant, L.C., Wheeling, West Virginia, For Appellants.  Sara E. Hauptfuehrer, Steptoe & Johnson, Morgantown, West Virginia, For Appellee American Bancorporation;  Ray A. Byrd, Schrader, Byrd & Companion, P.L.L.C., Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellees American Bancorporation Retirement Plan and Brent E. Richmond.