breach-of-duty
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-514 | Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release | Whether, in a case involving a release of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty … |
| 25-498 | Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Granted | Relisted (2) | breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard | Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t… |
| 23-84 | Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter | Second Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation | The schedule of a phenomenal, superstar U.S. Rapper and Executive has to be a tiring, stressful one. Stress and loss of rest has to intensify with the… |
| 20-1012 | Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-27 | Denied | breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision | Is the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applicable when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment, o… | |
| 20-6423 | Byron Lee v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | breach-of-contract breach-of-duty equal-protection federal-question feha feha-violation procedural-due-process removal removal-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1.) Did Los Angeles' Central District of California Court or The Ninth Cir. Ct. of Appeals, commit an Equal Protection Under The Law violation or Cali… |
| 19-1401 | April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) | breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan | Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative… |
| 19-1353 | AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations | There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 … | |
| 19-7660 | Ronald Blue West v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-exhaustion breach-of-duty causation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages duty-of-care federal-tort-claims-act prisoner-protection subject-matter-jurisdiction | In 2015, I Ronald Blue West, was incarcerated at the FCI-Allenwood Federal Correctional Institution in White Deer, Pa. 'Pennsylvania. West, file a civ… |
| 19-784 | University of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jennifer Sweda, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | breach-of-duty civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options iqbal pleading-standard twombly twombly-standard | 1. Whether Twombly's pleading standard governs breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA. 2. Whether a complaint states a plausible claim for breac… |
| 19-5960 | Ben W. Bane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption | Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court of that District can enforce a Local State Law, under South Carolina Code § 15-36-100, requir… |
| 18-8813 | Jean Bultman v. Cigna Group Insurance Company, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-duty civil-procedure employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty plan-administration prudent-investor-rule retirement-plans standing statute-of-limitations | Did the ERISA Plan Fiduciaries Breach their Duty to Provide Under the Six Year Statue of Limitations? |