Frances Darcangelo v. Verizon Communications, Incorporated Core, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that under ordinary conflict preemption, state law claims that conflict with federal law are preempted and preemption is asserted as a federal defense to the plaintiff’s suit
• holding that a breach of contract claim was completely preempted under ERISA
• emphasizing that the 6 Section 502(a) provides, in relevant part, that: A civil action may be brought . . . (3
• indicating the district court had supplemental jurisdiction over non-preempted state-law claims based on a single related claim subject to complete preemption
• stating “the doctrine of complete preemption converts an ordinary state common law complaint into one stating a federal claim” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[D]etermining whether [the plaintiff’s] claims are expressly preempted as relating to an ERISA plan under § 514 turns on whether her claims are alternative enforcement mechanisms to ERISA § 502”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).