United States Seventh Circuit

Grant of class action status to an ERISA suit is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the unnamed members of the class to become class members before exhausting their administrative remedies because of the lack of an exhaustion provision in ERISA's language.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2006
• Published 03/20/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deborah C. Saxe (submitted), Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Rotunno, Kubasiak, Fylstra, Reizen & Rotunno, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.