Koval v. Washington County Redevelopment Authority

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that defendant was established by statute as “a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers of the Commonwealth as an agency thereof” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding that the Alley test should not apply where federalism concerns are implicated
• noting that the power of eminent domain and the broad grant of authority to the entity to exercise all powers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the act supported the conclusion that the entity was a “political subdivision”
• finding defendant political subdivision subject to ERISA’s exemption for governmental plans
• district court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over benefits plan that is exempt from ERISA
• applying NLRB test to ERISA claim

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