Publication Date: 2010-12-20
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Date Filed: 2010-12-20
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek W. Loeser, Keller Rohrback LLP, Seattle, Washington, argued the cause for plaintiffs-appellants. Karin B. Swope, Keller Rohrback LLP, Seattle, Washington, filed the briefs. Lynn Lincoln Sarko, Tana Lin, and Ian J. Mensher, all of Keller Rohrback LLP, Seattle, Washington, also were on the briefs, as was Jeffrey C. Engerman, Los Angeles, California.
for defendant: Julia Penny Clark, Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, Washington, D.C., argued the cause for all defendants-appellees and filed the brief for defendant-appellee NEA. Jonathan Hacker, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., signed the same brief on behalf of defendant NEA MBC and the individual defendants. Douglas L. Greenfield and Abigail V. Carter, both of Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, Washington, D.C., also were on the brief for defendant NEA, and Bob Eccles, O?Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., also was on the brief for defendant NEA MBC and the individual defendants.
Nicholas T. Christakos, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, D.C., filed the brief for defendants-appellees Security Benefit Life Insurance Company, Security Distributors, Inc., Security Benefit Corporation, and Security Benefit Group, Inc. Steuart H. Thomsen, W. Mark Smith, and Phillip E. Stano, all of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, D.C., also were on the brief.
David J. Burman, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington, filed the brief for defendant-appellee Nationwide Life Insurance Company. Charles Platt and Emily Meyers, both of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York, also were on the brief, as were David Bowker and Mark Bieter, both of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.
Melissa Bowman, U.S. Department of Labor, filed a brief for the Secretary of Labor as amicus curiae in support of the defendants-appellees. Nathaniel I. Spiller, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, Timothy D. Hauser, Associate Solicitor, and Carol A. De Deo, Deputy Solicitor of Labor for National Operations, all of the U.S. Department of Labor, also were on the brief.
Case Number: No. 08-35531
Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15660JERRE DANIELS-HALL; DAVID HAMBLEN, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHERIDAN PEARCE, Director