153538P.pdf   02/22/2017  Brian Knowlton  v.  Anheuser-Busch Companies
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3538
                          and No:  15-3851
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - ERISA. In action by former Sea World employees claiming they 
   were entitled to enhanced pension benefits under the defendant's salaried 
   employee pension plan, the district court correctly determined that 
   Section 19.11(f) of the plan entitled plaintiffs to enhanced pension 
   benefit; this decision is in accord with the Sixth Circuit's 
   interpretation of the provision in Adams v. Anheuser-Busch Cos., 758 F.3d 
   743 (6th Cir. 2014); with respect to plaintiff's cross-appeal, asserting 
   the district court erred by failing to make individual calculations of the 
   enhanced benefits owed to individual members of the class, the district 
   court erred in concluding that plaintiff's complaint sought only a 
   declaration that Section 19.11(f) applied, as their complaint made a 
   sufficient request for an actual award of certain benefits with the 
   application of the enhanced benefit; therefore, the matter of the 
   calculation of benefits is reversed and remanded with instructions to 
   reconsider the plaintiff's prayer for relief and, to the extent requested 
   and provable, calculate and award the benefits owed to plaintiffs by 
   applying Section 19.11(f); finally, on remand, the district court should 
   reconsider whether certain records concerning the absentee class members 
   will assist in its calculation of the requested benefits.