Metaxas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 POPPI METAXAS Case No. 20-cv-01184-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

v. MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S

FIRST AMENDED SUPPLEMENTAL

GATEWAY BANK F.S.B, et al., COMPLAINT Defendants. Docket No. 135 12 I. INTRODUCTION This is an ERISA denial of benefits case involving whether Plaintiff is entitled to benefits under the terms of a supplemental executive retirement plan (“PLAN”). Plaintiff was the President and Chief Executive Officer for Defendant Gateway Bank prior to her disability and was a beneficiary of supplemental retirement benefits under it. Defendants are Gateway Bank, which is a small federally chartered savings bank in Oakland, CA, the Gateway Bank Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP), the Gateway Bank SERP Administrative Committee, which was an appointed committee to administer the SERP plan, and Gateway Bank SERP Appeals Committee, which oversaw the…