United States Ninth Circuit

In an ERISA case involving the cancellation of long-term disability benefits, summary judgment for the plan administrator is reversed where a district court must apply the traditional rules of summary judgment when examining evidence outside of the administrative record in an ERISA case, including the requirement that the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/20/2008
• Decided 01/13/2009
• Published 01/13/2009

Judges

• T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, T.G. NELSON and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Geoffrey V. White, Law Office of Geoffrey V. White, San Francisco, CA, and Cassie Springer-Sullivan, Oakland, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca A. Hull, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.