Elizabeth L. Rouse v. Daimlerchrysler Corporation Uaw Non-Contributory Plan

How courts have described this case

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• finding that abstention was inappropriate where plaintiff brought suit to determine whether a domestic relations order created obligations under ERISA
• noting that the law of the case doctrine, which generally prevents reconsideration of claims that have been decided at a previous stage in the same litigation
• stating that question of whether DRO satisfies section 1056 of ERISA is “strictly federal”
• finding an abuse of discretion where law-of-the-case doctrine was applied and, after “careful review,” the issue was never actually decided below
• finding an abuse of discretion where law of the case was applied and, after “careful review,” the issue was never actually decided below
• requiring the \clearest of justifications\ to warrant abstention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).