Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "

Pegram v. Herdrich

Holding that there was "jurisdiction regardless of the correctness of the removal" because the "amended complaint alleged ERISA violations, over which the federal courts have jurisdiction"

Hecker v. Deere Co.

Holding the use of revenue-sharing for plan expenses did not amount to an ERISA violation

Sprague v. General Motors Corp.

Holding that the principle that the terms of the SPD control when they conflict with the terms of the underlying plan does not apply when the SPD is merely silent on an issue because "[a]n omission from the summary plan description does not, by negative implication, alter the terms of the plan itself"

Pugh v. Tribune

Holding that Stoneridge precluded primary liability for an insider at Tribune

Parnes v. Gateway 2000, Inc.

Holding that an alleged $6.8 million overstatement of assets was immaterial because it represented only two percent of the company's total assets

Wiles v. Capitol Indem. Corp.

Holding that plaintiff's joinder of insurance agents in lawsuit against insurer for breach of insurance contract was fraudulent

Benton v. Merrill Lynch Co.

Finding "'[w]here the allegations show on the face of the complaint there is some insuperable bar to relief, dismissal under Rule 12(b) is appropriate.'"

Adams v. Freedom Forge Corp.

Holding in a case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that "financial distress suffered by employees whose wages have been terminated" does not qualify as irreparable harm to the employer upon which a preliminary injunction may issue

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity

Section 1002 - Definitions

Holding that ERISA is a federal law that sets standards of protection for individuals in most voluntarily established, private-sector retirement plans

Section 1104 - Fiduciary duties

Specifying duties of a "fiduciary . . . with respect to a plan"

Section 1102 - Establishment of plan

Granting administrator, as “named fiduciary,” the “authority to control and manage the operation and administration of the plan”

Section 1105 - Liability for breach of co-fiduciary

Providing that a plan administrator may delegate fiduciary responsibilities if permitted by the ERISA plan

Section 1108 - Exemptions from prohibited transactions

Granting the Department of Labor authority to grant exemptions from ERISA's prohibited-transaction provisions

Section 402 - Taxability of beneficiary of employees' trust

Excepting amounts payable under a QDRO from the definition of lump sum

Section 1107 - Limitation with respect to acquisition and holding of employer securities and employer real property by certain plans

Exempting ESOPs from the generally applicable 10% limit on the portion of plan assets that may be invested in employer stock

Section 1108 - Insurance

Section 2509.75-8 - Questions and answers relating to fiduciary responsibility under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

Recognizing limitations on directors' primary fiduciary liability " apart from co-fiduciary liability arising under circumstances described in section 405"

Section 2550.404c-1 - ERISA section 404(c) plans

Specifying that "The standards set forth in this section are applicable solely for the purpose of determining whether a plan is an ERISA section 404(c) plan" and "are not intended" to determine other responsibilities under ERISA