Morales v. New York State Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating that state law claims of emotional distress and related punitive damages arising out of “the administration of an ERISA employee benefit plan” are preempted
• holding a breach of contract claim preempted by ERISA
• rejecting contention that a plan’s status as a top-hat plan is an affirmative defense and concluding that § 1101(a)(1) “does not provide for an exemption from liability under section 502(a)” but instead “merely provides the legal standard by which [a defendant’s] section 502(a
• no reason to assume that Congress intended section 510 to have a legal remedy, contrary to the explicit intention to allow equitable remedies in section 502(a)
• claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress by refusing to grant severance benefits is preempted by ERISA

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