Wondering whether the Supreme Court has changed course in movement toward immunization of state governments from federal employment laws, employment lawyers are reviewing the Supreme Court's May 27 decision in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs. By a 6-3 vote, the Court affirmed a Ninth Circuit ruling that the...
In a surprising turn, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 27 that states are not immune from employee lawsuits for violating their rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act FMLA (Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, No. 01-1368 (5/27/03)). The 6-3 ruling rejecting state immunity from FMLA...
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The paper deduces that in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a vexing day-to-day problem in ERISA health care plan administration: whether a plan's reimbursement right can be enforced under ERISA when plan benefits have been paid to a participant or beneficiary who obtains a third party recovery....