Dennis S. Leavitt v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ERISA does not preclude releases of breach of fiduciary duty claims
• noting that such a release does not relieve a fiduciary of its responsibilities, but “merely settles a dispute that the fiduciary did not fulfill its responsibility or duty on a given occasion”
• considering, as factor (9), whether the release was induced by improper conduct of the defendant
• enforcing release of ERISA claims though employee did not consult attorney
• a release of a claim is valid “if the claim is knowingly and voluntarily released”
• factor (4) is “the amount of time [the plaintiff] had for deliberation before signing the release”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).