Co., 881 F.2d 309, 315 (6th Cir.1989) and Laborers’ Pension Trust Fund v. Weinberger Homes, 872 F.2d 702 (6th Cir.1988)). Ac cordingly, we GRANT Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment with regards to the state and federal age discrimination claims. 2. Plaintiff’s ERISA Violation Claim. The Plaintiff claims that the Defendant also fired him to avoid Plaintiffs full pension benefits from vesting. The Defendant has moved to dismiss because the Plaintiff did not exhaust all of his administrative remedies. a. Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies. The Plaintiff has brought this action under section 510 of ERISA which provides: [It is unlawful] for any person to discharge ... a participant or beneficiary ... for the purpose of interfering with the attainment , 891 F.2d 842 (11th Cir.1990) (<HOLDING>). Because it appears that when deciding whether
holding exhaustion of administrative remedies not required prior to bringing statutory claim under erisa holding that proper exhaustion of administrative remedies is necessary under section 1997ea holding that the decision whether to apply the exhaustion requirement in an erisa case is committed to the district courts sound discretion but that the district court abused its discretion by not dismissing the suit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies holding mason did not take away discretion from district court to allow suit without exhaustion of administrative remedies recognizing that exhaustion of state administrative remedies is not a prerequisite to bringing a  1983 action