Rogers v. Washington

How courts have described this case

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

• approving of the adop- tion of state common-law causes of action under ERISA, even when they were preempted by ERISA
• approving of the adop- tion of state common-law causes of action under ERISA, even when they were preempted by ERISA
• approving of the adoption of state common-law causes of action under ERISA, even when they were preempted by ERISA
• \The prediction ... that use of preempted state common law doctrines to shape a federal common law of ERISA would frustrate Congress’s goal of uniformity is unfounded.\
• federal common law cannot be imported to alter and undermine written obligations in the employee benefit plan
• “[R]esort to federal common law generally is inappropriate when its application would ... threaten to override the explicit terms of an established ERISA benefit plan.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).