Legal Opinion
Mimbs v. Commercial Life Insurance
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided April 22, 1993No. CV390-023PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BOWEN, District Judge.
By Order entered January 8, 1993, the Court raised a jurisdictional issue rooted in the possibility that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), Pub.L. No. 93-406, 88 Stat. 832 (1974) (codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461), might pre-empt one or more of Plaintiffs state-law claims and convert them into federal claims. The Court invited the parties to submit briefs on the issue, and they did so. For the reasons set forth below, the Court (1) determines that some of the state-law causes of action asserted by Plaintiff in the original…
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