State Treasurer v. Abbott

The issue in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (erisa)1 prevents the State Treasurer from implementing its restitutive scheme under the State Correctional Facility Reimbursement Act (scfra). MCL 800.401 et seq. The restitutive scheme in this case has as its object to require defendant, an inmate at a state correctional facility, to reimburse the state for the cost of his incarceration. Through court order, defendant’s former employer was directed to send defendant’s pension checks to defendant’s prison account rather than to his credit union. The warden was made…