Frank Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

Frank Stoffels, James Belcher, Burnie Joe Dunn, Jack Giuliani, and Linda Villafane, representing themselves and those similarly situated (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), brought an enforcement suit against SBC Communications, Inc., SBC Telephone Concession Plan, and AT&T (collectively, “Defendants”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants’ practice of offering reimbursements for telephone services to retirees who lived outside of Defendants’ service region constituted a “pension…