Legal Opinion
George Lowe v. McGraw Companies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 15, 2004No. 03-1888, 03-1954PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
An ERISA plan (the other defendants can be ignored) appeals from the district judge’s imposition, after an evidentiary hearing, of statutory penalties and attorneys’ fees for failure to comply with the plaintiffs requests for plan documents. The plaintiff, George Lowe, cross-appeals, challenging the judge’s order setting aside under Rule 60(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure a default judgment that she had entered in his favor earlier and that was more favorable to him than the contested judgment, entered later, from which the plan appeals.
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2Cases cited54 opinions
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