Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc.

Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc., 513 U.S. 874 (1994)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1994-10-03
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that ERISA preempts an action under state law in which a former fiduciary of an employee benefit plan governed by ERISA claimed that he had been wrongfully terminated in order to prevent him from reporting possible misuse of trust funds by another fiduciary
  • rejection of a lease in bankruptcy is treated as a breach in order to preserve the rights of the party whose lease with the debtor has been rejected by providing a pre-petition claim

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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.