United States Ninth Circuit

Prescription drug plan participants who had suffered no judicially cognizable injury lacked Article III standing to sue their plans- fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2005
• Decided 10/17/2006
• Published 10/17/2006

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge., Before KOZINSKI and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and TERRY J. HATTER, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen J. Herman, Herman Mathis Casey Kitchens & Gerel, LLP, New Orleans, LA;  David S. Casey, Jr., Herman Mathis Casey Kitchens & Gerel, LLP, San Diego, CA;  Mary E. Alexander, Mary Alexander & Associates, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Howard M. Radzely, Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser, Associate Solicitor, Elizabeth Hopkins, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, Mary F. Williams, Trial Attorney, for amicus Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, WA, D.C., Douglas K. deVries, deVries Law Firm, Sacramento, California;  Ronald Dean, Pacific Palisades, CA;  Amy Bach, United Policyholders, San Francisco, CA, for amicus United Policyholders.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul J. Ondrasik, Jr., Martin D. Schneiderman, Eric G. Serron, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, WA, D.C.;  Peter S. Kozinets, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendant-appellee.