Enniss

MEMORANDUM *

Arnold Reid Enniss (“Reid”), Delpha Enniss, and Commercial Conservancy No. *596 1 (“Appellants”) appeal the district court’s judgment in this ERISA action brought by Ray “Chip” Enniss, a former employee, alleging that Appellants reneged on their promise to provide him a pension. Appellants contend the district court erred in holding that Chip had a valid promissory estoppel claim; that the relief he sought was authorized by ERISA; that his suit was not barred by the applicable statute of limitations; and that he was entitled to an equitable remedy. We affirm.

The district court correctly concluded that Chip’s claim satisfied all the elements of federal common law promissory estoppel. See Greany v. W. Farm Bureau Life Ins. Co., 973 F.2d 812, 821-22 (9th Cir.1992). Because there was no written documentation of the Enniss Enterprises, Inc. (“EEI”) plan and the various characterizations at trial of the plan’s terms were inconsistent, the plan’s terms were ambiguous. Moreover, Reid’s statements to Chip regarding benefits were an oral interpretation of the plan not a modification or amendment of the plan. See Kane v. Aetna Life Ins., 893 F.2d 1283 , 1286 (11th…