Legal Opinion
Bassiri v. Xerox Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2006No. 04-55472PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.
The district court determined that the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) apply to Xerox’s Long-Term Disability Plan (“LTD Plan”) because the plan pays only 60% of Appellant Ali Bassiri’s usual salary. Bas-siri challenges that determination. The district court certified this issue for interlocutory appeal, and we thus have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
I. Factual Background
Ali Bassiri was a permanent employee of Xerox Corporation from 1997 to 2002. While employed at Xerox, Bassiri…
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