396 Corp. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that estoppel cannot be used to modify the written terms of an ERISA plan
• explaining that Congress rejected the use of informal written agreements to modify an ERISA plan
• “ERISA requires that each plan shall ‘provide a procedure for amending such plan, and for identifying the persons who have authority to amend the plan....”
• “for the federal courts to create a body of federal common law to govern ERISA cases does not ... give a federal court carte blanch authority to apply any prevailing state common law doctrine it chooses to ERISA cases.”

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