White paper: Employee benefits in the Supreme Court (2020 update)

White paper: Employee benefits in the Supreme Court (2020 update)

October 01, 2020

United States
United States
United States

With three cases in its most recent term, the US Supreme Court has decided an astonishing 133 employee benefit cases in its 45 terms following the effective date of ERISA. We’ve updated our groundbreaking survey of these cases with the decisions from the October 2019 term and with new commentary. (Spoiler alert: With a dissenting opinion in her last term on the Court, Justice Ginsburg joined the top 5 list of authors of employee benefit opinions.)

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