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Fifth Circuit· 4/27/1999

Matassarin v. Lynch

Citations

  • 174 F.3d 549
  • 23 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1663
  • 43 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 924
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 8233

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that the\ `loss to the plan' language ... limits claims to those that inure to the benefit of the plan as a whole and not to the benefit only of individual plan beneficiaries\
  • affirming summary judgment dismissing a section 502(a)(2) claim for a fiduciary breach that affected a limited number of plan participants
  • affirming denial of a motion to recuse because the record “falls . . . short of ‘such a high degree of favoritism or antagonism as to make fair judgment impossible.’” (quoting Liteky v. United States, 510 U.S. 540, 555 (1994)
  • upholding district court’s grant of summary judgment of a Section 502(a)(2) claim for individual recovery because Section 409 “limits claims to those that inure to the benefit of the plan as a whole and not to the benefit only of individual plan beneficiaries”
  • court to review de novo a plan administrator’s interpretation of the meaning of a QDRO
  • “The QDRO, unlike the Plan, is a separate, judicially approved contract between Jenkins and Matassarin, which the Plan administrator has no special discretion to interpret.”

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Judges: Garza, Benavides, Dennis

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