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Seventh Circuit Enforces ERISA Forum Selection Clause
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Aug. 23, 2017

"[T]he Seventh Circuit found the Sixth Circuit's reasoning ... to be convincing. The court was not persuaded by Mathias' citation to 'an obscure decision of the Supreme Court' ... that is often relied upon by plaintiffs in forum selection clause cases. In 2016, the same issue was raised in a petition for writ of mandamus to the Eighth Circuit under facts similar to Mathias. The Eighth Circuit denied the petition without explanation.... The secretary of labor filed an amicus brief in support of the participants in each of the three appellate cases, but none of the circuit courts were persuaded." [In re Mathias, No. 16-3808 (7th Cir. Aug. 10, 2017)]  MORE >>

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