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Lockheed Corp. Vs. Spink

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1996

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  1. Curtiss-wright Corp. Vs. Schoonejongen US Supreme Court · Jan 17, 1995
  2. Varity Corp. Vs. Howe US Supreme Court · Mar 19, 1996
  3. U.S. 882 (1996) October Term, 1995 Syllabus Lockheed Corp. Et Al. V. Spink
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  4. a)(1) violation warranting relief. Cf. Peacock v. Thomas
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  5. the rule that this Court announced with respect to the amendment of welfare benefit plans in Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen
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  6. Landgraf v. USI
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  7. plans. Nor does ERISA mandate what kind of benefits employers must provide if they choose to have such a plan. Shaw v. Delta
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  8. Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan
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  9. will not be left emptyhanded once employers have guaranteed them certain benefits. As we said in Nachman Corp. v. Pension
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  10. Commissioner v. Keystone
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  11. a)(1) to warrant relief under the enforcement provisions. Cf. Peacock v. Thomas
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  12. of ERISA''') (quoting Mertens v. Hewitt
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  13. CA9 1995). For that same proposition, several Courts of Appeals have relied on statements in Mertens v. Hewitt
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  14. id., at 262. See, e. g., Reich v. Stangl
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  15. Landwehr v. DuPree
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  16. Reich v. Compton
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  17. the category of fiduciaries. As we said with respect to the amendment of welfare benefit plans in Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen
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  18. Id., at 78 (citing Adams v. Avondale
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  19. actions, they do not act as fiduciaries, 514 U. S., at 78, but are analogous to the settlors of a trust, see Johnson v. Georgia-Pacific
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  20. A). Siskind v. Sperry
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  21. true that amending or terminating a plan ... cannot be an act of plan 'management' or 'administration.''' Varity Corp. v. Howe
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  22. See also Shaw v. Delta
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  23. deficiency), the act of amending a pension plan does not trigger ERISA's fiduciary provisions. 4 See, e. g., Siskind v. Sperry
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  24. Fletcher v. Kroger
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  25. Hozier v. Midwest
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  26. Sutton v. Weirton
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  27. risk of plan underfunding because they are struck with plan insiders, presumably not at arm's length. See Commissioner v. Keystone
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  28. does not address what an employer can and cannot ask an employee to do in return for benefits. See generally Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan
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  29. Two Terms ago, we set forth the proper approach for determining the retroactive effect of a statute in Landgraf v. USI
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  30. Spink as a member of the Plan as of December 25, 1988, the first day of Lockheed's 1988 plan year. 897 graf v. USI
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  31. any general inferences that might be drawn from the substantive provisions of the statute. See generally Morales v. Trans
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  32. Fourco Glass Co. v. Transmirra
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  33. Syllabus Lockheed Corp. Et Al. V. Spink
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  34. Cf. Peacock v. Thomas
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  35. Shaw v. Delta
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  36. Nachman Corp. v. Pension
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  37. Mertens v. Hewitt
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  38. Reich v. Stangl
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  39. Adams v. Avondale
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  40. Johnson v. Georgia-Pacific
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  41. Siskind v. Sperry
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  42. See Commissioner v. Keystone
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  43. Morales v. Trans
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