Legal Opinion
Merit Construction Alliance v. City of Quincy
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 16, 2014No. 13-2189PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case presents not one, but two, questions of considerable import, each of which implicates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. The first concerns whether the reach of ERISA’s preemption provision, 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a), extends to a municipal ordinance mandating the establishment of a specific type of apprentice training program. The second concerns the scope of ERISA’s fee-shifting provision, 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1). After careful consideration, we conclude that the district court answered the first question correctly,…
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