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Argued November 1, 1995.
Decided March 19, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Floyd Abrams argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Thomas J. Kavaler, Katherine B. Harrison, Jonathan Sherman, and William J. Koehn.
H. Richard Smith argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were David Swinton, Michael J. Eason, and Robert J. Schmit.
Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Days, Richard P. Bress, Thomas S. Williamson, Jr., Allen H. Feldman, Steven J. Mandel, Mark S. Flynn, and Judith D. Heimlich.*
Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which O'Connor and Scalia, JJ., joined, p. 516.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Breyer, delivered the opinion of the Court.
A group of beneficiaries of a firm's employee welfare benefit plan, protected by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 832, as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq. (1988 ed.), have sued their plan's administrator, who was also their employer. They claim that the administrator, through trickery, led them to withdraw from the plan...
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