Former Employees of Philips Lighting Co. v. United States Secretary of Labor

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under the deferential standard of review, “the court is ... limited to consideration of the evidence that was before the [fiduciary]”
• first discussing “estoppel,” and then discussing as an alternative theory “equitable estoppel”
• plaintiff should have asked whether his interpretation of a term in his retirement benefit plan was correct where the interpretation of the term was crucial to his retirement decision
• plaintiffs interpretation of term in benefit plan was too good to be true

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).