Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
In an interpleader action by a bank seeking to determine the ownership of an IRA account held by decedent, summary judgment for the named beneficiaries of the IRA is affirmed where: 1) the surviving spouse protections in ERISA did not apply to the IRA even though some of the funds originated from an ERISA-protected pension plan, and 2) the Internal Revenue Code also did not impose automatic surviving spouse rights on IRAs similar to those protections afforded under ERISA.
Read Charles Schwab & Co. v. Debickero, No. 07-15261
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted October 23, 2008
Filed January 22, 2010
Judges
Per Curiam
Counsel
For Appellant:
Scott Blair, Blair Law Firm, PLC, Scottsdale, AZ
Robert A. Olson, Greines Martin Stein & Richland, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
For Appellees:
Jerome K. Elwell and J. Brent Welker, Warner Angle Hallam Jackson & Formanek PLC, Phoenix, AZ