John Clayton v. ConocoPhillips Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the assignee of a deed of trust holds the power to foreclose
• finding discretion when administrator “determin[ed] whether ‘good reason’ exist[ed] when a Participant terminat[ed] her employment”
• distinguishing case law on “single event” plans when plan allowed employees to claim benefits for up to two years after a triggering event and required discretion in eligibility determinations
• addressing a waiver in the context of -the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
• “Under Williams, [Defendant] first must make a prima facie showing that [Plaintiff] received adequate consideration for the Waiver.”
• discussing “eligibility discretion” as evidence of an administrative scheme

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).