Case: Financial Benefits/Bonus Program (W.D. Tex.)

A proposed class action arising out of defendant Marathon Petroleum Company LP’s alleged breach of defendant Andeavor LLC’s 2018 Incentive Compensation Program partly survived a motion to dismiss in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs stated a plausible breach-of-contract claim for failure to pay full bonuses in 2018, the court said, but because the plaintiffs seek money damages, their claim for specific performance must be dismissed. The court also dismissed a request for declaratory judgment as adding nothing beyond the breach-of-contract claim. The plaintiffs said that Marathon agreed to pay full non-prorated bonuses to ...