Compliance | October 14th, 2024 Argent Trust Co. Petitions for Supreme Court to Provide Guidance on ERISA Arbitration The Supreme Court has previously declined to review appeals courts’ decisions that held arbitration provisions unenforceable.
Compliance | October 7th, 2024 Cornell 403(b) Transaction Complaint to Get SCOTUS Review The court will consider split decisions in lower courts over how strictly ERISA should be read when determining the case...
Compliance | July 3rd, 2024 Lawsuit Against NYC Pension Funds’ Divestment in Fossil Fuels Dismissed A New York State judge dismissed the complaint due to lack of standing and failure to demonstrate injury.
Benefits | March 22nd, 2024 Molina Healthcare Close to Win in ERISA Lawsuit A California federal judge’s ruling in an ERISA lawsuit against Molina Healthcare provides a window into this court’s thinking on...
Compliance | January 19th, 2024 26 State Attorneys General Appeal Biden ESG Rule Decision Republicans appeal to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, requesting it strike down the rule that permits environmental, social...
Compliance | October 16th, 2023 American Airlines Motion Argues ESG Funds Theory is “Wrong” The argument about ESG funds by former pilot Bryan Spence ‘runs headlong into the Supreme Court's instruction,’ according to the...
Benefits | July 6th, 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Leaves Student Loan Borrowers Looking for Help Workers with student loan debt may start to feel a pinch when payments resume in October. Plan sponsors have an...
Compliance | June 30th, 2023 Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan The court’s conservative majority rejected President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for eligible borrowers.
Compliance | April 9th, 2023 New Hughes v. Northwestern Decision Could Mean More Litigation The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals finds reason to move two of three motions forward after Supreme Court review.
Compliance | March 1st, 2022 CalSavers ERISA Preemption Lawsuit Appeal Rejected by SCOTUS The lawsuit, filed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, unsuccessfully aimed to block CalSavers on the grounds that the federal...
Compliance | January 25th, 2022 Detailed Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Northwestern University Ruling Expert attorneys say the new ruling can be interpreted as ‘modestly expanding’ the precedents set by the Supreme Court in...
Compliance | December 21st, 2020 Why Some ERISA Litigation Trends May Turn in 2021 It may seem like the pace of ERISA litigation will never slow down, but one ERISA attorney says he is...
Compliance | June 1st, 2020 Has the Supreme Court ‘Gutted’ ERISA Protections for Pensioners? Plaintiffs’ attorneys, bemoaning the new Supreme Court ruling in Thole v. U.S. Bank, say participants in defined benefit plans are...
Compliance | June 1st, 2020 Supreme Court Decision in Thole v. U.S. Bank Has Major Implications for Pensions The ruling effectively establishes that individual pension plan participants cannot sue their employer for a fiduciary breach if their own...
Compliance | February 27th, 2020 Uncertainty Remains After Supreme Court’s Intel Ruling Sources debate whether electronic delivery of retirement plan disclosures could blunt some of the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling...
Compliance | June 26th, 2019 Supreme Court Rules in Case With Major Implications for Retirement Plans The case concerns the issue of how much courts should defer to agency (such as IRS or Department of Labor)...