Lanfear v. Home Depot, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “District courts have discretion to excuse the exhaustion requirement when resort to administrative remedies would be futile or the remedy inadequate.”
• “When a plaintiff makes a plausible argument that a federal statute creates 21 his right to relief, the district court has subject-matter jurisdiction over that complaint.”
• [P]laintiffs in ERISA actions must exhaust available administrative remedies before suing in federal court.”
• “The former employees plausibly argue that they are participants entitled to sue for breach of fiduciary duty. Because the former employees’ argument for participant status is plausible, the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).