Sherfel v. Newson’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.3d 561 · 2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 2601 (§ 2 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2612 (§ 102 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2651 (§ 401 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2652 (§ 402 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts
Most-quoted passages
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“any state-law cause of action that duplicates, supplements, or supplants the ERISA civil enforcement remedy conflicts with the clear congressional intent to make the ERISA remedy exclusive and is therefore pre-empted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ERISA's purpose is among the broadest, if not the broadest, recognized by the Supreme Court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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