United States Ninth Circuit
JOHNSON v. W.L. GORE & ASSOCS., INC., 02-17094
The long-standing "elapsed-time method" of calculation does not violate ERISA's vesting and benefit accrual requirements; defendant employer violated neither the elapsed-time regulation nor its own stock ownership and pension benefit plan. Summary judgment for defendant is therefore affirmed.
Appellate Information
- Argued 12/03/2003
- Decided 01/28/2004
- Published 01/28/2004
Judges
- D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, D.W. NELSON, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Susan Martin,Martin & Bonnett, P.L.L.C., Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Charles F. Knapp, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for the defendant-appellee., Paul W. Heiring, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for the defendant-appellee.