McDonald v. Artcraft Electric Supply Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that denial of jury trial would violate Seventh Amendment guarantee
• reasoning that Ingersoll-Rand provides powerful support that Congress intended ERISA to provide a right to a jury trial
• stating, “At the close of trial, if the Court deems based on the evidence elicited at trial that a jury instruction on punitive damages may be appropriate, the Court will at that time entertain Defendant’s motion and consider the issue of whether punitive damages are available under ERISA”
• ERISA plaintiffs seeking \traditional legal relief\ are *Page 914 entitled under the Seventh Amendment to a trial by jury
• an action to recover money due under a contract is legal in nature
• “The Supreme Court views ERISA claims as analogous to contract actions prior to ERISA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).