William Lee v. Verizon Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that violation of statutory right to proper pension plan management did not manifest concrete injury absent alleged adverse effect to actual benefits
• concluding that “constitutional standing for defined-benefit plan participants requires imminent risk of default by the plan, such that the participant’s benefits are adversely affected”
• concluding that a “bare allegation of incursion on [a] purported statutory right” is not a constitutional injury absent an “allegation of a real risk” to the plaintiff
• no-standing where plaintiff alleged breach of a duty under ERISA but no harm caused by the mismanagement of the pension plan
• no standing where plaintiff alleged breach of a duty under ERISA but no harm caused by the mismanagement of the pension plan
• “As a matter of subject matter jurisdiction, standing under ERISA § 502(a) is subject to challenge through Rule 12(b)(1).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).