United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal of an employee's pension claim under ERISA is affirmed where the plaintiff's argument that the court should interpret the statute according to extrinsic evidence of Congressional intent failed because of the absence of any latent ambiguity in the relevant statutory language.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2005
• Decided 02/27/2006
• Published 02/27/2006

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before ROVNER, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dale A. Schempp (argued), Schempp Law Office, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey W. Sarles (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.