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Severance

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On June 1, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in Langley v. Howard Hughes Mgmt. Co., L.L.C., 694 F. App’x 227 (5th Cir. 2017), held that William Langley, a former golf club executive, was entitled to receive approximately $255,000 in severance pay, plus attorney’s fees.  The Court found that the administrator’s interpretation of a severance plan, which resulted in denying the former executive’s claim for severance pay, was an abuse…