Brown v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

How later courts describe this case

• " '[sjtatus quo' to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy”
• " '[s]tatus quo' to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy"
• "[I.R.C. § 401] does not appear to create any substantive rights that a beneficiary of a qualified retirement trust can enforce”
• “This section [§ 401 of the I.R.C.] does not appear to create any substantive rights that a beneficiary of a qualified retirement trust can enforce.”
• Party who loses case because the court lacked jurisdiction is not a prevailing party.
• plaintiff’s post-argument letter to court commenting on case cited by defendant constituted unauthorized brief
• Internal Revenue Code provisions do not create substantive rights under ERISA that can be enforced by an individual in a private cause of action as a participant under a tax-qualified pension plan (citing Cowan v. Keystone Employee Profit Sharing Fund, 586 F.2d 888, 890 n. 3 (1st Cir.1978