Kirkendall v. Halliburton, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the exhaustion 18 requirement for ERISA claims “is not absolute” and may be excused when a 19 plaintiff demonstrates that pursuing administrative remedies would be futile
• “It is apparent that Kirkendall thought that she had pursued the avenues available to her and reasonably concluded that the only means of vindicating her claim was through a lawsuit.”

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