Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Pacific Lighting Corp. v. Mgw, Inc

510 U.S. 964

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1993-11-08
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • “Giving an employee more work, which could even be perceived as giving ‘an employee a chance to excel,’ is not an adverse employment action.”
  • stating, "We agree that the two paragraphs quoted above refer to different obligations— that the first paragraph creates a contractual obligation for reimbursement and that the second paragraph deals with a statutory or common-law right to subrogation.”
  • “[m]ere influence over the trustee’s investment decisions ... is not effective control over plan assets,” where ultimate decision-making authority rests elsewhere
  • non-ERISA ease containing instructional but non-binding sum mary of Florida law of ambiguity, and finding the undefined term “experimental” to be ambiguous in the context of a major medical insurance policy
  • non-ERISA case containing instructional but non-binding summary of Florida law of ambiguity, and finding the undefined term “experimental” to be ambiguous in the context of a major medical insurance policy

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44 opinions

510 U.S. 964

Pacific Lighting Corp. et al.
v.
MGW, Inc.

No. 93-426.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 8, 1993.

1

Appeal from the Sup. Ct. Cal.

2

Certiorari denied.