Legal Opinion
Medina v. Catholic Health Initiatives
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 19, 2017No. 16-1005PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. (ERISA), generally exempts from its requirements “church plans”—employee-benefit plans established and maintained by churches for their employees. ERISA also extends that church-plan exemption to so-called principal-purpose organizations. A principal-purpose organization is a church-affiliated organization whose principal purpose is administering or funding a benefit plan for the employees of a church or a church-affiliated nonprofit organization.
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is a…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Skidmore v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Cutter v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic BishopSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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