164 N.C. App. 486 - Long v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hughes · Fuller v. Norton
Most-quoted passages
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“[ did ] possess an element of intent. We credit the [L]egislature with deliberate composition of its statutes unless there is some construction and policy concern sufficient to raise an ambiguity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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