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Untrustworthy: Erisa’S Eroded Fiduciary Law, Peter J. Wiedenbeck Feb 2018

Untrustworthy: Erisa’S Eroded Fiduciary Law, Peter J. Wiedenbeck

William & Mary Law Review

The trust law analogy has come to dominate judicial thinking about employee benefit plans. Yet despite its rise to rhetorical prominence, ERISA fiduciary law has been dramatically transformed by a series of uncoordinated, low-visibility judicial decisions on multiple fronts. These apparently unconnected case law developments reveal a startling pattern of mutually reinforcing restrictions on ERISA’s protection of pension and welfare benefits. This study chronicles ERISA’s trust law turn to expose how untrustworthy workers’ benefit safeguards have become. Both the scope and the intensity of fiduciary oversight have been radically pruned back in the courts. Notwithstanding the congressional declaration that attempts …


Menendez And America's Public Corruption Problem, Jeffrey Bellin Apr 2015

Menendez And America's Public Corruption Problem, Jeffrey Bellin

Popular Media

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Criminalizing Politics, Jeffrey Bellin Sep 2014

Criminalizing Politics, Jeffrey Bellin

Popular Media

No abstract provided.


Scaling Chinese Walls: Insights From Aftra V. Jpmorgan Chase, Jeffrey Bingham Apr 2013

Scaling Chinese Walls: Insights From Aftra V. Jpmorgan Chase, Jeffrey Bingham

William & Mary Business Law Review

The material non-public information financial services firms receive from clients utilizing commercial banking services may often prove beneficial to the firm’s trust account clients if the information is used in making investment decisions for these trust accounts. Consequently, financial services firms confront two equally dubious options: to utilize the information to benefit the trust account client and break insider trading laws, or to disregard the information and seemingly violate the firm’s fiduciary duty to the trust account client. To successfully defend against either of the above claims, firms should establish and maintain effective Chinese Walls between private and public side …


Broad Prohibition, Thin Rationale: The Acquisition Of An Interest And Financial Assistance In Litigation Rules, James E. Moliterno Jan 2003

Broad Prohibition, Thin Rationale: The Acquisition Of An Interest And Financial Assistance In Litigation Rules, James E. Moliterno

Faculty Publications

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Conflicts Of Interest In Scientific Expert Testimony, Mark R. Patterson Apr 1999

Conflicts Of Interest In Scientific Expert Testimony, Mark R. Patterson

William & Mary Law Review

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