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DAVID H. TULLIS, MICHAEL S. MACK,
Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees,
v.
UMB BANK, N.A.,
Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.


Nos. 06-4632/4633

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Ohio at Toledo.
No. 06-07029—Jack Zouhary, District Judge.
Argued: October 25, 2007
Decided and Filed: January 28, 2008
Before: MERRITT, ROGERS, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

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OPINION
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MERRITT, Circuit Judge. This appeal raises the question of whether two physicians can sue to recover losses from a bank that allegedly failed to notify them of fraudulent activities affecting their ERISA-governed pension plans. The District Court for the Northern District of Ohio held that the two physicians did not have standing to bring their breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA because they sought individual damages – and not, as it deemed necessary, damages for the plan as a whole – from the defendant bank. Additionally, the plaintiffs argue in this appeal that an indemnity agreement between the Defendant and the ERISA-plan administrators contravenes 29 U.S.C. § 1110(a) by impermissibly shielding a fiduciary from liability. Finally, the defendant has filed a cross-appeal, contending that the District Court erred by dismissing, without prejudice instead of with prejudice, the plaintiffs’ improperly pled claims under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.

We hold that the plain language and intent of ERISA permits an individual plan participant to seek recovery of losses due to a fiduciary breach. Because we hold that the plaintiffs have standing to pursue their claims under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(2), thereby permitting the case to proceed to the merits, we pretermit resolution of both the plaintiffs’ argument that the Master Trust Agreement contravenes 29 U.S.C. § 1110(a) and the defendant’s cross-appeal that the District Court erred by failing to dismiss the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act claims with prejudice.


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THOMAS A. DOLAN,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.


No. 07-5369

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
No. 06-00208—Thomas W. Phillips, District Judge.
Submitted: November 30, 2007
Decided and Filed: January 28, 2008
Before: ROGERS and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

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OPINION
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BERTELSMAN, District Judge. Plaintiff/Appellant, Thomas A. Dolan, appeals from the dismissal of tort claims against the United States and Bivens and common law conspiracy claims against individual defendants, Guy Blackwell, Randall Kizer, and Bruce Poston. The district court filed a memorandum opinion which may be found at 2007 WL 784351. After careful review, we AFFIRM.


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WATSON WYATT & COMPANY,
Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
SBC HOLDINGS, INC.,
Respondent-Appellee.


No. 06-2063

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 05-71473—John Feikens, District Judge.
Argued: November 30, 2007
Decided and Filed: January 28, 2008
Before: ROGERS and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

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OPINION
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BERTELSMAN, District Judge. Watson Wyatt & Company (“Watson Wyatt”) appeals the district court’s order denying in part its petition to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 4. Because we find that the arbitration provision is broadly written to include claims arising from events that occurred before the execution of the arbitration agreement, we REVERSE.


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INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA (UAW), AFL-CIO; LEO ANDRE AHERN, an individual,
Petitioners,
v.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD,
Respondent,
OGIHARA AMERICA CORP.,
Intervenor.


No. 06-2156

On Petition for Review of an Order
of the National Labor Relations Board.
Nos. 7-CA-47942; 7-CA-48024.
Submitted: September 14, 2007
Decided and Filed: January 28, 2008
Before: NORRIS, GIBBONS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges

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OPINION
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JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. Petitioners International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), AFL-CIO (“the Union”), and individual Leo Andre Ahern seek review of the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) decision finding that Ogihara America Corporation (“the Company”) did not violate section 8(a)(1), (3) and (4) of the National Labor Relations Act (“the Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 158,2 by discharging petitioner Ahern. Specifically, petitioners challenge the Board’s determinations that: (1) employee Ahern lost the protection of the Act through his deliberate falsification; (2) the Company met its burden of showing that it would have discharged Ahern because of his falsification regardless of his union activity; and (3) petitioners did not meet their burden of establishing that Ahern’s discharge was related to his board testimony. For the following reasons, we deny the petition for review and enforce the Board’s order.