Legal Opinion
Ogden v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided March 31, 1987No. Civ. A. 83CV0482DTPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 1
PHILIP PRATT, Chief Judge.
Members of the plaintiff class claim they were wrongfully denied retirement benefits in violation of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. The defendants are the plaintiffs’ former employer, Michigan Bell Telephone Company (Michigan Bell), and Dan Grady, Michigan Bell’s vice president of personnel. Grady was the plan administrator of an early retirement program known as the Management Income Protection Plan (MIPP). The plaintiffs are several hundred former management employees of Michigan…
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- York v. First Presbyterian ChurchSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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