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Full-Text Articles in Retirement Security Law
Amicus Curiae Brief State Of Utah Et. Al. V Walsh Et. Al., Ethan Halman Gonzalez
Amicus Curiae Brief State Of Utah Et. Al. V Walsh Et. Al., Ethan Halman Gonzalez
Honors Theses
In accordance with Rule 29 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, this amicus curiae is submitted in the defense of Walsh and the Department of Labor in releasing the prudence and loyalty in selecting plan investments and exercising shareholder rights rule in November of 2022. These brief mainly focuses on the arbitrary and capricious standard, the major questions doctrine, and the legal standing the Department of Labor has to issue rules that apply to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
The Other Securities Regulator: A Case Study In Regulatory Damage, Anita K. Krug
The Other Securities Regulator: A Case Study In Regulatory Damage, Anita K. Krug
Articles
Although the Securities and Exchange Commission is the primary securities regulator in the United States, the Department of Labor also engages in securities regulation. It does so by virtue of its authority to administer the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the statute that governs the investment of retirement assets. In 2016, the DOL used its securities regulatory authority to adopt a rule that, for the first time, designates securities brokers who provide investment advice to retirement investors as fiduciaries subject to ERISA's stringent transaction prohibitions. The new rule's objective is salutary, to be sure. However this Article shows that, …
A Reflection On Erisa Claims Administration And The Exhaustion Requirement, James A. Wooten
A Reflection On Erisa Claims Administration And The Exhaustion Requirement, James A. Wooten
Journal Articles
This essay, prepared in connection with the Drexel Law Review Symposium, ERISA at 40: What Were They Thinking?, examines ERISA’s regime for administering benefit claims and, in particular, the requirement that participants exhaust their plan’s review procedures before filing suit to recover benefits. Like other key elements of ERISA’s claims regime, the exhaustion requirement is a judicial creation that is not articulated in ERISA’s text. Interestingly, former congressional staffers who attended the Symposium said they assumed participants would be required to exhaust plan review procedures but failed to include such a requirement in the legislation. After reviewing the development of …
Raising The Social Security Retirement Ages: Weighing The Costs And Benefits, Kathryn L. Moore
Raising The Social Security Retirement Ages: Weighing The Costs And Benefits, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The Social Security program faces a long-term funding deficit. The Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance ("OASDI") Trust Funds predicts that unless corrective action is taken, Social Security benefit payments will exceed dedicated tax revenues by the year 2015, and the Social Security program will become insolvent—unable to pay promised benefits in full-by the year 2037. As a result of this projected deficit, Social Security has become "a lightning rod for far reaching reform proposals."
Proposals range from "traditional" proposals that would maintain the basics of the program's revenue and benefit structure but would …
Effectiveness Of The Social Security Review System In Disability Cases, William D. Popkin
Effectiveness Of The Social Security Review System In Disability Cases, William D. Popkin
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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