United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from the District Court's order disapproving a settlement of an ERISA class action, the appeal is dismissed, where the order disapproving the settlement did not have "serious, perhaps irreparable, consequences," and thus was not appealable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2008
• Decided 04/22/2009
• Published 04/22/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, B. FLETCHER and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve Berman and Andrew M. Volk, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA;  Douglas A. Buxbaum and John M. Fitzpatrick, Buxbaum Daue & Fitzpatrick, Andrew D. Huppert, Missoula, MT;  Thomas M. Peterson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  and J. Gerard Stranch, IV, James G. Stranch, III and Jane B. Stranch, Branstetter Stranch & Jennings PLLC, Nashville, TN, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. David Jackson and Frederick Matthew Ralph, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Minneapolis, MN;  Nicole A. Diller and Lisa S. Serebin, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Patrick T. Fleming, Fleming & O'Leary, Butte, MT, for the defendants-appellants., John A. Litwinski and Nancy G. Ross, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, Chicago, IL;  and Chris C. Scheithauer, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, Irvine, CA, for the defendant-appellee.