Legal Opinion
Hampers v. W.R. Grace & Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 30, 2000No. 20-1137PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et. seq., preempts a common law cause of action for lump sum contract damages where the alleged breach involves the failure of a former employer to enroll the plaintiff in an ERISA-regulated employee pension benefit plan. The plaintiff, Dr. Constantine Hampers, demanded a jury trial on his common law breach of contract claims against defendants, W.R. Grace and Company, W.R. Grace and Company-Connecticut, (collectively, “Grace”), National…
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