Lee Gardner v. Heartland Industrial Partners

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• holding that where the duty was “not derived from or conditioned upon” the terms of the plan, and where no one need interpret the plan to determine whether that duty exists, the duty was independent of ERISA
• the need to look at an ERISA plan to measure damages was “beside the point for purposes of Davila’s second prong”
• citation to Davila, 542 U.S. at 210, internal quotation marks, and brackets omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).