MITCHELL v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

Nos. 89-1019, 89-1031, 89-1085 and 89-1111.

896 F.2d 463 (1990)

Porter H. MITCHELL, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, a New York corporation; Retirement Plan of Mobil Oil Corporation; and Trustees of the Retirement Plan of Mobil Oil Corporation, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Erisa Industry Committee and Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney Patula (Thomas L. Roberts, Peter H. Ziemke, W. Randolph Barnhart, and Peter W. Pryor, with him on the briefs) of Pryor, Carney & Johnson, Englewood, Colo., for plaintiff-appellee/cross-appellant.

Michael E. Tigar of the University of Texas Law School (Steven J. Merker of Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver Colo., and Loren Kieve, Standish F. Medina, Jr., and Jonathan E. Richman of Debevoise & Plimpton, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants/cross-appellees.

Harris Weinstein, John M. Vine, and Dwight C. Smith III of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Erisa Industry Committee.

Paul J. Ondrasik, Melanie Franco Nussdorf, Suzanne E. Meeker, and Theodore E. Rhodes of Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Ass'n of Private Pension and Welfare Plans.

Before MOORE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and DAUGHERTY, District Judge.


JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.

In this case, the Mobil Oil Corporation and one of its former employees, Porter Mitchell, dispute whether changes which Mobil made in its employee benefit plan violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. At trial, Mr. Mitchell succeeded on his age-discrimination...

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