No. 18-1116October Term 2019Decided Feb 26, 2020
Intel Corp. Investment Policy Comm. v. Sulyma
This case asked when the three-year deadline for bringing an ERISA fiduciary-breach claim begins to run.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Feb 26, 2020
- What it's about
This case asked when the three-year deadline for bringing an ERISA fiduciary-breach claim begins to run. The Court held that a plaintiff does not have the required "actual knowledge" just because plan disclosures were made available to him if he did not read them or cannot remember reading them.
Question presented
Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), which runs from "the earliest date on which the plaintiff had actual knowledge of the breach or violation," bars suit where all of the relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff by the defendants more than three years before the plaintiff filed the complaint, but the plaintiff chose not to read or could not recall having read the information.
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Decision released Feb 26, 2020
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
Timing
Decided February 26, 2020
The Court released its decision on February 26, 2020 without hearing oral argument.
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Jun 1, 2026
- Method
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