High Court Should Review Forum-Selection Clauses In ERISA Plans, Petitioner Says

(May 3, 2019, 9:02 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should grant a pension plan participant’s petition for writ of certiorari because the issue of whether private employee benefit plans can override the statutory venue choices that Congress made available to plan participants under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is one of national importance and one that has arisen numerous times in lower federal courts, the plan participant argues in an April 23 petition to the high court (Jeffrey A. Robertson v. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al., No. 18-1341, U.S. Sup.)....

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