Sullivan v. LTV Aerospace & Defense Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the burden of proving that an administrator was influenced by a conflict of interest rests with the plaintiff
• noting that “[c]ourts addressing this issue have almost uniformly held that under the common law of trusts proceedings to determine rights under employee benefit plans are equitable in character and thus a matter for a judge, not a jury” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).