United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a request for fees brought by a prevailing defendant-plan in an ERISA case is affirmed where the district court correctly found that the motion for fees was untimely, and correctly concluded that a fee-shifting sanction did not apply.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/07/2005
• Decided 02/02/2006
• Published 02/02/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary L. Bender, Cataula, GA, pro se., Renee Bender, Cataula, GA, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy P. McCarthy, Chestnut & Brooks, Minneapolis, MN, Nathan A. Fishbach (argued), Ross A. Anderson, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, Milwaukee, WI, Phillip Todryk, Hudson, WI, for Defendants-Appellees., Bruce J. Douglas (argued), Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Bloomington, MN, Defendant-Appellant.