The Supreme Court has significantly relaxed pleading standards for alleging prohibited transactions involving third parties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which regulates how privately managed benefit plans are administered.
The plaintiff trust beneficiaries in this case sued Cornell University and other plan fiduciaries for causing the
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