Basile v. Connolly

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that employee benefit plans under ERISA “cannot be considered affiliates under any ordinary or specialized understanding of that term”
• holding that a company’s ERISA plan was not an “affiliate” of the company
• noting that many provisions in ERISA “are grounded on the concept that an employee benefit plan must be independent of the employer that sponsors the plan”
• interpreting ERISA plan term based on the meaning of the surrounding terms
• “Like consent decrees, settlement agreements are ‘hybrid[s] in the sense that they are at once both contracts and orders; they are construed largely as contracts, but are enforced as orders.’ ”
• ERISA balances Congress's encouragement of ESOPs with a recognition that the interests of a plan and the employer will sometimes diverge

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