Employers Resource Management Company, Incorporated v. Preston C. Shannon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, in the ERISA context, “the federal-state balance ... has been skewed sharply in favor of the federal system”
• finding Congress did not enact ERISA because “state courts were being used to harass and injure individuals” as was the case for section 1983
• “[T]he appropriate authority to decide the scope of the ERISA preemption issue in this case is the state court, where the action initially was filed and where this issue initially was presented and ruled upon.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).