Legal Opinion
Massachusetts v. Morash
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 1989No. 88-32PublishedCited by 489 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
This case requires us to determine whether a company’s policy of paying its discharged employees for their unused vacation time constitutes an “employee welfare benefit plan” within the meaning of §3(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or Act), 88 Stat. 833, as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1002(1), and whether a criminal action to enforce that policy is foreclosed by the Act’s broad pre-emption provision.
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In May 1986, petitioner, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, issued two complaints in the Boston Municipal Court against respondent, Richard N. Morash, president of the…
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