BRENDA J. JOHNSON PATRICIA K. ORMSTON, PLAINTIFFS—APPELLANTS v. U.S. BANCORP, DEFENDANTS—APPELLEES

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state-law contract claim for severance benefits was completely preemption by ERISA and properly dismissed where “[t]he alleged promise was that benefits would be paid in accordance with the [ERISA plan]”
• affirming dismissal of plaintiff’s alternative state law breach of contract claim
• “It is well-established that ERISA’s civil enforcement provisions are the exclusive remedies for participants seeking to recover benefits under an ERISA plan.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).