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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 13 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Health Cost Controls v. Ralph Isbell, Father and Next Friend of Tammy Isbell.

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1 Health Cost Controls v. Ralph Isbell, Father and Next Friend of Tammy Isbell Anchor
ca6 · 1997
green “federal courts may not apply common law theories to alter the express terms of written benefit plans.” 6
2 Health Cost Controls v. Ralph Isbell, Father and Next Friend of Tammy Isbell
ca6 · 1997
green “the plain language of an erisa plan should be given its literal and natural meaning.” 4
3 Bollman Hat Company v. Kevin T. Root Dale E. Anstine, P.C. Bollman Hat Company, as Sponsor of the Bollman Hat Company Health and Welfare Benefits Plan
ca3 · 1997
green “necessary to fill in interstitially or otherwise effectuate the erisa statutory pattern enacted in the large by congress.” 3

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