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IN RE BECKER

No. 20-72805.

993 F.3d 731 (2021)

IN RE Yvonne BECKER. Yvonne Becker, Petitioner, v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland, Respondent, Wells Fargo & Company; Employee Benefit Review Committee; Ronald L. Sargent; Wayne M. Hewett; Donald M. James; Maria R. Morris; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; Galliard Capital Management, Real Parties in Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 1, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter K. Stris , Douglas D. Geyser , and John Stokes , Stris & Maher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Michelle C. Yau , Mary J. Bortscheller , Daniel R. Sutter , and Jamie L. Bowers , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Todd Jackson and Nina Wasow , Feinberg Jackson Worthman & Waslow LLP, Berkeley, California; for Petitioner.

Russell L. Hirschhorn , Myron D. Rumeld , and Joseph Clark , Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York; John E. Roberts , Proskauer Rose LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Tulio D. Chirinos , Proskauer Rose LLP, Boca Raton, Florida; for Real Parties in Interest.

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Among the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) many goals is to provide "ready access to the Federal courts." 29 U.S.C. § 1001(b). But ready access does not mean parties cannot agree to litigate in a specific forum in advance. And here the parties did just that: Plaintiff Yvonne Becker and...

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