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Cunningham v. Cornell University et al

  1. September 22, 2020

    Cornell Staves Off Trial With Deal In ERISA Suit

    Cornell University has agreed to wrap up a class action brought by workers who alleged they were saddled with high retirement plan fees and shoddy investment options, but an attorney for the workers vowed Tuesday to press the Second Circuit to revive the bulk of their case.

  2. August 27, 2020

    Cornell ERISA Trial Back On Track, But Logistics Unclear

    A New York federal judge has rescheduled a jury trial in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action against Cornell University that was temporarily derailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the logistics of the late September trial are currently unclear, according to recent court documents.

  3. May 22, 2020

    Virus Derails Cornell Retirement Plan Trial For Now

    Workers accusing Cornell University of saddling their retirement plans with unreasonable record-keeping fees will have to wait an "unknowable amount of time" before they can take their remaining claims to trial due to the coronavirus pandemic, a New York federal judge has ruled.

  4. March 11, 2020

    Cornell Workers Can't Get 2nd Stab At Recordkeeping Claims

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday refused to give Cornell University workers a new chance at claiming their retirement plans were saddled with unreasonable recordkeeping fees, ruling the workers didn't point to the kind of "new evidence" that would support another look.

  5. January 15, 2020

    Cornell Calls Ex-Workers' Bid To Revive ERISA Claim 'Fanciful'

    Cornell University has asked a New York federal judge not to give its workers a second chance to pursue a challenge to the record-keeping fees paid by their retirement plans, saying the workers didn't have the "silver bullet" they needed to get that claim back on track.

  6. September 20, 2019

    Similarities To MIT 401(k) Case 'Superficial,' Ivies Insist

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's failed bid for an early exit from an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit should not doom efforts by Cornell and Columbia to escape retirement plan mismanagement suits, the Ivy League schools told a New York federal court.

  7. June 20, 2019

    2nd Circ. Won't Touch Cornell's Cert. Challenge In ERISA Suit

    The Second Circuit won't review a lower court's decision to certify a class of roughly 28,000 current and former Cornell University workers in an ongoing Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit alleging the school mismanaged their retirement savings.

  8. February 26, 2019

    Cornell Workers Fight School's Quick Win Bid In ERISA Suit

    A class of current and former Cornell University workers has urged a New York federal judge not to give the school a quick win in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing the Ivy League school of mismanaging workers' retirement savings.

  9. January 28, 2019

    Cornell Seeks Quick Win In ERISA Class Action

    Cornell University is seeking a win in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action alleging mismanagement of workers' retirement savings, telling a New York federal judge the class didn't back up claims that the school's plan charged excessive fees and made unwise investment choices.

  10. January 23, 2019

    Cornell Workers Win Class Certification In ERISA Suit

    A group of more than 28,000 current and former Cornell University workers won class certification in a suit accusing the Ivy League school of mismanaging workers' retirement savings in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.  

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