John G. Silvernail v. Ameritech Pension Plan and Ameritech Corporation

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

John Silvernail worked for Ameritech, then known as the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, for almost 11 years, from February 1967 to January 1978. He was 18 years old when he started and 29 when he left. Based on these years of service, Sil-vernail, who is now 57, believes the company will owe him a pension when he turns 65.

Silvernail began trying to nail down his entitlement to benefits in 1999. He has lost at every step along the way and is here today appealing the district court’s granting of the defendants’ (Ameritech Corporation and the Ameritech Pension…