Sandler v. New York News Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing “the many common law tort and contract actions, typically brought against plan administrators or plan insurers, that are held preempted because they seek recovery based upon improper denial of benefits under a plan or policy”
• plaintiff relied upon erroneous overstatement as to value of his pension in electing to accept employer’s buyout offer; though contract claims seeking increased benefits were preempted, misrepresentation claim was not, since “[a]t base, it [wa]s a suit over lost employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).