Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that courts can determine jurisdiction in declaratory relief action by “reposition[ing] the parties [and] asking whether [it] would have jurisdiction had the declaratory relief defendant been a plaintiff seeking a federal remedy.”
• holding same, and stating that the party seeking the ERISA declaration raised “a classic case for declaratory relief’
• “A person may seek declaratory relief in federal court if the one against whom he brings his action could have asserted his own rights there.”
• “[W]e can 19 reposition the parties in a declaratory relief action by asking whether we would have 20 jurisdiction had the declaratory relief defendant been a plaintiff seeking a federal 21 remedy.”
• “An ERISA fiduciary cannot refuse to pay a beneficiary of a plan by using a setoff from a wholly separate source of debt, be that an ordinary debt or a debt to a wholly separate ERISA plan.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).