Morin v. Beto

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• concluding that federal law governed whether parties formed a partnership and so were liable for pension withdrawal under ERISA
• holding ERISA preempts Montana Probate Code requirement to present claims against an estate within four months of publication of notice
• holding joint venturers personally liable for withdrawal liability because joint ventures are normally treated as a type of partnership, and, in contrast to shareholders and officers of a corporation, “partners are personally liable for obligations of the partnership”
• rejecting argument that “§ 1301(b) violates procedural requirements of the Due Process Clause” because “the requirement of common control in § 1301(b
• relying on Congress’s command to use “Federal substantive law” to fill in statutory gaps
• \Congress enacted sec. 1301(b) in order to prevent businesses from shirking their ERISA obligations by fractionalizing operations into many separate entities.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).