The title’s a bit of a nerdy inside lawyer joke - ERISA, the federal law that governs employee benefit plans, is infamous for its wide and broad preemption provision, which basically means that no state court actions get the chance to look at cases with ERISA implications, and even when the federal district courts are […]

Score one for Wal-Mart. The retail giant, heavily criticized for its poor treatment of its workforce, won the latest round in its battle against the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act with an opinion from the 4th Circuit upholding the district court’s ruling that the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempted the state […]