Bassiri v. Xerox Corp.

463 F.3d 927 Ali BASSIRI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. XEROX CORPORATION; Xerox Corporation Long-Term Disability Income Plan; Lawrence Becker, Defendants-Appellees, and Patricia Nazemetz; Prudential Company of America; Health International; Does 1-100 Inclusive, Defendants. No. 04-55472. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 5, 2005. Filed September 12, 2006. Kathleen A. Brewer, Westlake Village, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant. Richard J. Pautler, Thompson Colburn, LLP, St. Louis, MO, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Dickran M. Tevrizian, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-03-03597-DT. Before PREGERSON, NOONAN, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges. PREGERSON, Circuit Judge. 1 The district court determined that the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") apply to Xerox's Long-Term Disability Plan ("LTD Plan") because the plan pays only 60% of Appellant Ali Bassiri's usual salary. Bassiri challenges that determination. The district court certified this issue for interlocutory appeal, and we thus have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (b).…