2nd Circuit Affirms That ERISA Preempts N.Y. Law Provision In Collection Row

( June 11, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Affirming that the anti-alienation provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts a New York law under which the appellant sought to restrain retirement accounts to satisfy a money judgment, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in a June 10 per curiam opinion that “the plain language of ERISA and the precedent interpreting it make clear that pension plan funds are exempt from attachment to satisfy a money judgment.”...