Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Callico v. United States
Callico v. United States, 459 U.S. 1069 (1982)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-12-06
- Topic
- general
holding that available state remedies precluded plaintiff’s claim that she was deprived of liberty interest without procedural due process | holding that the use of fund assets to fend off a hostile tender offer, since made without sufficient inquiry into the facts, constitutes a violation of the fiduciary standards under ERISA | holding that "truck drivers and yard workers [who] transport [an integrated poultry producer's] poultry between independent contract growers, which raise the chickens to market weight, and the company's processing plant" were "employees," rather than "agricultural laborers," under the Act | holding that “truck drivers and yard workers [who] transport [an integrated poultry producer’s] poultry between independent contract growers, which raise the chickens to market weight, and the company’s processing plant” were “employees,” rather than “agricultural laborers,” under the Act | Due Process not violated “if the state provides reasonable remedies for preventing families from being arbitrarily broken up by local domestic relations officers.” | trustees must make decisions with an eye single to the interests of the participants and beneficiaries | adoptive grandmother, who served as de facto mother had liberty interest in continued custody of several children | corporate officers who are also trustees of the firm’s pension plan are fiduciaries within the meaning of ERISA | trustees must make decisions with an eye single to the interests of the participants and beneficiaries | pursuant to a fiduciary’s duty of loyalty, all decisions regarding an ERISA plan “must be made with an eye single to the interests of the participants and beneficiaries.” | pursuant to a fiduciary’s duty of loyalty, all decisions regarding an ERISA plan “must be made with an eye single to the interests of the participants and beneficiaries.” | duties of an ERISA fiduciary are the highest known in law | duties of an ERISA fiduciary are the highest known in law | intentional deprivation of liberty interests in adoption proceedings | discussing alternatives to avoid conflict of interest
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.