TEETS v. GREAT-WEST LIFE & ANNUITY INS. CO.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter K. Stris , Stris & Maher LLP, Los Angeles, California ( Rachana A. Pathak , John Stokes , Stris & Maher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Nina Wasow , Todd F. Jackson , Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP, Oakland, California; Todd Schneider , Mark Johnson , James Bloom , Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP, Emeryville, California; Scot Bernstein , Law Offices of Scot D. Bernstein, P.C., Folsom, California; Garret W. Wotkyns , Michael McKay , Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP, Scottsdale, Arizona; Erin Riley , Matthew Gerend , Keller Rohrback LLP, Seattle, Washington; Jeffrey Lewis , Keller Rohrback LLP, Oakland, California, with him on the brief), for the Plaintiff-Appellant.

Carter G. Phillips , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Michael L. O'Donnell , Edward C. Stewart , Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP, Denver, Colorado; Joel S. Feldman , Mark B. Blocker , Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, Illinois, with him on the brief), for the Defendant-Appellee.

William Alvarado Rivera , ( Mary E. Signorille , AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C. with him on the brief) for AARP and AARP Foundation Litigation, Amici Curiae.

James F. Jorden , ( Waldemar J. Pflepsen, Jr. , Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A., Washington D.C.; and Michael A. Valerio , Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A., Hartford, Connecticut with him on the brief), for American Council of Life Insurers, Amicus Curiae.

Nancy G. Ross , Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, Illinois, ( Jed W. Glickstein , Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Brian D. Netter , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Lehotsky , U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C.; Janet M. Jacobson , Washington, D.C., with her on the brief), for the Chamber of Commerce of the United State of America and the American Benefits Council, Amici Curiae.

Before MATHESON, BACHARACH, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.