Feibusch

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TONI FEIBUSCH, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, No. 04-16501

INC. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,

Defendant,  D.C. No.

CV-03-00265-SOM

and OPINION

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF

CANADA,

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Susan Oki Mollway, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 24, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed September 7, 2006

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Gilbert Stroud Merritt,* and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hug

*The Honorable Gilbert Stroud Merritt, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

10895 FEIBUSCH v. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE 10897

COUNSEL

Mark D. DeBofsky, Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant, Chicago, Illi- nois; Alan Van Etten & Robert D. Harris, Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff- appellant.

Keith K. Hiraoka, Roeca Louie & Hiraoka, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mark E. Schmidtke, Schmidtke Hoeppner Consultants LLP, Valparaiso,…