PENSION BEN. EX REL. ST. VINCENT v. MORGAN STANLEY

Docket No. 10-4497-cv.

712 F.3d 705 (2013)

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORP., on behalf of SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS RETIREMENT PLAN, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, Queensbrook Insurance Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 2, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric B. Fisher , Dickstein Shapiro LLP, New York, NY; ( Israel Goldowitz , Chief Counsel; Charles L. Finke , Deputy Chief Counsel; Joel W. Ruderman , Assistant Chief Counsel; Kelly R. Cusick , Attorney; Scott Wagner , Attorney, on the brief), Office of Chief Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington, DC; ( Judith Starr , General Counsel; Kenneth Cooper , Assistant General Counsel; Greg Matisoff , Attorney, on the brief), Office of General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard A. Rosen ( Andrew W. Amend , on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Judge STRAUB dissents in part and concurs in part in a separate opinion.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we consider the degree of factual detail needed in a complaint in order to present nonconclusory and plausible allegations that a pension plan administrator purchased and continued to hold certain mortgage-backed securities in violation of its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.

In an effort "to ensure that employees will...

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