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.