Legal Opinion
Custer v. Sweeney
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1996No. 95-1077, 95-1079PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge HALL and Senior Judge BUTZNER joined.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
Robert D. Custer, a trustee of and participant in the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund, an employee benefit plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., sued the plan’s attorneys, alleging breach of ERISA fiduciary duties and legal malpractice. The district court dismissed Custer’s ERISA claim on the ground that the attorney named in the ERISA count was not a plan fiduciary and…
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