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• recognizing employer's federal common law restitution claim to recover pension contributions paid by mistake because ERISA's provisions \[do] not establish a cause of action by which employers may seek to compel such a refund\
• recognizing employer’s federal common law restitution claim to recover pension contributions paid by mistake because ERISA’s provisions “[do] not establish a cause of action by which employers may seek to compel such a refund”
• “Absent a judicially-crafted cause of action, employers are left to the mercy of plan trustees who have no financial incentive to return mistaken payments.”
• “the existence of an ‘ERISA-governed plan’ is an essential precursor to federal jurisdiction”
• Union could seek recovery of unauthorized contributions under federal common law
• “[B]ecause the cause of action we 28 No. 19‐1553 are authorizing is equitable in nature, recovery will not follow automatically upon a showing that the Union contributed more than was required but only if the equities favor it.” (in‐ ternal quotation marks omitted)

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