Legal Opinion
Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. v. U.S. Dep't of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 15, 2018No. 17-10238PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
*363Three business groups1 filed suits challenging the "Fiduciary Rule" promulgated by the Department of Labor (DOL) in April 2016. The Fiduciary Rule is a package of seven different rules that broadly reinterpret the term "investment advice fiduciary" and redefine exemptions to provisions concerning fiduciaries that appear in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829 (ERISA), codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq, and the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 4975. The stated purpose of the new rules is to regulate…
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