Alexander v. Brigham & Women's Physicians Organization, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a plan’s participants comprising only 8.7% of entire workforce was select
• noting that defendant \has the burden of proving that [deferred compensation plans] were each top hat plans.\
• recognizing the DOL Opinion Letter as the source of the non-statutory factor
• rejecting argument that every plan beneficiary must possess bargaining power sufficient to influence terms of plan
• finding plans maintained for 8.7% and 5.8% of employees to be “select.”
• “We have no quarrel with the letter’s persuasiveness as a gloss on Congress’s intentions in enacting the top-hat provision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).