Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
John Mason v. Continental Group, Inc.
John Mason v. Cont’l Grp., Inc., 474 U.S. 1087 (1986)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1986-01-21
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “simply characterizing the claim as a tort claim rather than a breach of contract claim does not excuse the failure to pursue [administrative] remedies”
- “the conflict among the circuits over the issue of an exhaustion requirement under ERISA can hardly be passed over as an unimportant one, unworthy of this court’s attention”
- requiring exhaustion for claims grounded in statutory provisions of ERISA
- discussing legislative history of ERISA
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C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.