Legal Opinion
Cottrill v. Sparrow, Johnson & Ursillo, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 19, 1996No. 96-1542PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
We are summoned again to survey the battleground on which plaintiff-appellant Arthur T. Cottrill has been struggling to recover his beneficial interest in a profit-sharing plan maintained by his former employer, Sparrow, Johnson & Ursillo, Inc. (SJU). 1 In our first visit to the war zone we determined that Cottrill was not a fiduciary within the contemplation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1994), and specifically, 29 U.S.C. § 1002(21)(A). See Cottrill v. SJU, 74 F.3d 20, 22 (1st Cir.1996). We therefore reversed the district…
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