Banyai v. Mazur’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Sosna v. Iowa · General Telephone Co. of the Northwest, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Robidoux v. Celani · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Group, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“Class actions are generally well-suited to litigation brought pursuant to ERISA. See Koch, 2001 WL 289972 , at . In fact, the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure intended Rule 23(b)(1)(B) to apply to an action, predicated upon a breach of trust by a trustee or other fiduciary, which affects the members of a large class of beneficiaries and who seek to remedy the breach by restoration of the trust. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(1)(B), advisory committee’s note to 1966 amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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