Seda-Arroyo v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \making a promise that the defendant reasonably should have expected to induce action or forbearance on the plaintiff's part...can constitute extraordinary circumstances\
• holding that ERISA allows equitable relief where the party seeking such relief can prove “(1) that there is a remediable wrong, i.e., that the plaintiff seeks relief to redress a violation of ERISA or the terms of a plan; and (2
• finding 15 that ERISA-plan participants were not entitled to disgorgement without evidence that the fiduciary “gained a benefit” from the complained-of conduct
• requiring party seeking estoppel to show “that the provisions of the plan at issue were ambiguous such that reasonable persons could disagree as to their meaning or effect”
• “a party cannot maintain a federal equitable estoppel claim in the ERISA context when recovery on the claim would contradict written plan provisions”
• “‘The beneficiary can pursue the remedy that will put the beneficiary in the position he or she would have attained but for the trustee’s breach.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).