"The majority of courts to address this issue have ruled in favor of enforcing forum selection clauses. However, going against the trend, two federal district courts recently determined that forum selection clauses are automatically invalid and unenforceable within the ERISA context ... [At] the beginning of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a [third] case in which the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of enforcing a plan's forum selection clause.... The [DOL] without any success thus far, has consistently filed amicus briefs in support of the view that forum selection clauses in ERISA plans are invalid and unenforceable."  MORE >>