Jovani Fashion, Ltd. v. Cinderella Divine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• employee benefit funds have standing to sue under LMRA for employer’s failure to make contributions required under collective bargaining agreement with union
• employee benefit funds have standing to sue under LMRA for employer's failure to make contributions required under collective bargaining agreement with union
• employee benefit funds have standing to sue under LMRA for employer’s failure to make contributions required under collective bargaining agreement with union
• “Here, plaintiffs are the employment benefit plans, not one of the enumerated plaintiffs [permitted] to sue under ERISA, and so their ERISA claims must be dismissed.”
• “Thus, to the extent that plaintiffs seek to assert federal question jurisdiction under ERISA, they must fit within the requirements of § 502(a) and cannot separately look to § 1145.”
• “Section 502 of ERISA creates a federal right only as to the parties enumerated in the statute; by that logic, parties not included within the statute cannot bring ERISA claims in federal court under [28 U.S.C.] § 1331, as they can assert no right arising under federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).