Kopp v. Klein, No. 16-11590 (5th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's third amended complaint for failure to state a claim. Plaintiff, a former employee of Idearc, Inc., alleged that defendants breached their duties of loyalty and prudence as Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciaries. The court held that the district court properly dismissed plaintiff's substantive duty-of-prudence claim in light of Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer; plaintiff's duty-of-prudence claim could not rest solely on defendants' procedural failings; and plaintiff's allegations did not give rise to a plausible inference that defendants' concern about the stock price was self-serving.
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