Legal Opinion
Joseph D. Griggs v. E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company, Joseph D. Griggs v. E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 9, 2001No. 99-2508, 99-2607PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TRAXLER, Circuit Judge:
Joseph Griggs brought an action against his former employer E.I. DuPont de Nem-ours & Company (“DuPont”) under section 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), see .29 U.S.C.A. § 1132(a)(3) (West 1999). Griggs claimed that DuPont breached its fiduciary duty by leading Griggs to believe that he was eligible for a tax-deferred lump sum distribution of early retirement benefits under DuPont’s Temporary Pension System and then failing to notify Griggs when DuPont learned that Griggs’s election to receive such a distribution was not…
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