Tag: Supreme Court

Justices’ questions suggested skepticism toward employers’ push for a hard year-end cutoff in withdrawal liability calculations in multiemployer plans. 

Justices will review a long-running complaint that has implications for future ERISA litigation.

The ruling requires plaintiffs to meet a higher factual bar before discovery, using a Supreme Court ruling-inspired workaround to screen...

The participants in the ERISA loss causation complaint chose to abandon the case just two days before the nation’s highest...

The Supreme Court already ruled on a separate part of the case in 2020 and will have to decide whether...

The case, originally filed in 2021, alleges the company violated ERISA by retaining target-date funds that were high cost and...

Justices will decide how much flexibility actuaries have when calculating how much companies must pay when withdrawing from a multiemployer...

The decision in a case about President Trump’s birthright citizenship order has wide implications but does not affect pending litigation...

The judges did not comment on the case, and the 9th Circuit’s remand to a California district court will stand.

Industry experts worry that a new wave of ERISA lawsuits will follow the ruling that lowered the bar for plaintiffs...

District and appellate courts have split opinions on whether the burden of proof in the excessive fee case falls on...

Cornell employees can once again challenge the university over claims of excessive recordkeeping fees in the school’s defined contribution plans. 

The court considered split decisions made in lower courts to determine whether plaintiffs must argue more than a ‘prohibited transaction’...

The Supreme Court will hear a case against Cornell University to resolve a split among circuit courts on whether a...

This is the fifth time since 2019 that the Supreme Court has refused to consider the issue.

The Supreme Court has previously declined to review appeals courts’ decisions that held arbitration provisions unenforceable.

The court will consider split decisions in lower courts over how strictly ERISA should be read when determining the case...

A New York State judge dismissed the complaint due to lack of standing and failure to demonstrate injury.

A California federal judge’s ruling in an ERISA lawsuit against Molina Healthcare provides a window into this court’s thinking on...

Republicans appeal to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, requesting it strike down the rule that permits environmental, social...