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25-986 MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending bankruptcy ERISA multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation unfunded-vested-benefits withdrawal-liability 1. Whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can—through the auspices of imposing "reasonable conditions" on multiemployer pension plans…
25A825 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator Question not identified.
25A680 MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-09 Application agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. It does no…
25A601 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Application erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Question not identified.
25-514 Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release Whether, in a case involving a release of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty …
25-498 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Granted Relisted (2) breach-of-duty erisa fiduciary-duty fund-performance investment-prudence prudent-man-standard Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a plan fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t…
25A400 Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge 1. whether, when proceeding under § 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3), which allows a beneficia…
25-409 Sherry L. Miller v. Campbell Soup Company Retirement & Pension Plan Administrative Committee Third Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) disclosure-requirements erisa fiduciary-breach procedural-protections state-law-release welfare-benefits 1. Whether ERISA permits fiduciaries to enforce a state-law general release as a condition of receiving welfare benefits, where the release bars plan-…
25A367 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund Second Circuit 2025-09-29 Application erisa mass-withdrawal multiemployer-plan pension-plan special-financial-assistance zone-status Question not identified.
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether this Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, 592 U.S. 80 (2020) clarifies the test for statutory preemptio…
25A146 Winston R. Anderson, et al. v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standard prudence-claim What is required to plead an imprudent-investment claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1)(B)?
24-1149 T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation This petition involves three questions of exceptional importance: Whether the pension plan at issue in this case, designed and operated for over 70 y…
24-1080 Suzanne Gifford, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gifford v. Operating Engineers 139 Health Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure discovery-limitations erisa fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion 1. Whether courts may effectively preclude ERISA plaintiffs from engaging in any discovery. 2. Whether plan administrators' fiduciary obligations to …
24-1030 Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al. v. Michael D. Johnson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-28 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-prudence judicial-standard retirement-plan Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), retirement plan fiduciaries have a duty to remove imprudent investments from their plan wit…
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing I. The insured under a policy insuring against accidental death, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") an…
24-620 Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-06 Dismissed CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law This case raises a long-unresolved question at the heart of ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1…
24-559 Tenneco, Inc., et al. v. Tanika Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-procedure effective-vindication-exception erisa federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation 1. The court below applied the judge-made "effective vindication" exception to the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") to invalidate an individual arbitra…
24-5772 Stephen Sewalk v. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-stay due-process erisa extortion hobbs-act settlement-agreement Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit sanction a violation of Petitioners' due process rights (as well as sanction violations of Bank…
24-5697 Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-deference erisa judicial-review pension-benefits pro-se-litigation When an underfunded pension plan that is covered by Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") terminates, Respondent P…
24-5201 Rebecca Wu v. California State Teacher's Retirement System California 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review due-process employee-classification equal-protection erisa fiduciary-duty public-retirement-systems retirement-system 1. Is it required, mandated or an abuse of Discretion, for California State Teachers Retirement System to do a Review, Make a determination on the pro…
24-61 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review In Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, the Court set forth the standard of review for denials of benefits provided by employers under the Employment…
23A1021 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete disability-benefits erisa judicial-review plan-administrator procedural-violations standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2024-05-13 Granted CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the…
23-1185 In Re W. A. Griffin 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit-interpretation assignment-of-benefits civil-rights erisa erisa-rights georgia-law georgia-state-law medical-benefit-assignment preemption standing statute-of-limitations statutory-penalties 1. Whether or not Dr. Griffin's assignment of rights and benefits language is sufficient for all remedies supported by US Supreme Court Case law. 2. …
23-1159 Roland Huff v. BP Corporation North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied employee-benefits erisa group-life-insurance group-policy information-disclosure insurance-rates life-insurance policy-contract rate-increase transparency Do employees and retirees have the right under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to obtain information and documentation from their …
23-1094 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm's-length-agreement circuit-conflict employee-benefit-plan employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty precedent prohibited-transaction Whether a fiduciary to an employee benefit plan causes the plan to engage in a prohibited transaction under Section 406(a)(1)(C) of the Employee Retir…
23A867 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete attorney-fees eaja equal-access-to-justice-act erisa government-litigation substantial-justification Question not identified.
23-1007 Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-13 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci…
23A637 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete 401k-plan erisa fiduciary-duty prohibited-transactions service-providers third-party-services 1. This case involves an important, recurring issue about the proper interpretation of Section 406(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act o…
23-734 Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea…
23A503 Kathy Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process erisa judicial-explanation life-insurance rule-60-motion Question not identified.
23-586 United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D. K., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-record benefits-denial erisa health-benefits judicial-review substantial-evidence treating-provider 1. Is an ERISA-governed plan that denies health benefits required to discuss contrary opinions from the member's treating providers in the decision le…
23-570 Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th…
23A365 United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23-422 Shirley T. Sherrod, et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Seventh Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defenses amendment civil-procedure erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duties rule-15 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the underlying rulings contradict the plain text of the applicable ERISA provisions in finding a breach of Petitioners' fiduciary duties and d…
23-122 Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan Third Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation The question presented in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), prohibits individual arbitra…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel…
22-1210 Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory This Court has repeatedly held that when an ERISA plan expressly confers upon the plan administrator discretion to interpret its terms, that interpret…
22-1197 Jon Lawrence Frank v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 401k-plan consumer-credit-protection-act employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa garnishment lump-sum-distribution mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution retirement-plan-benefits 1. Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, pursuant to which retirement plan benefits "may not be assigned or alienated," 29 U.S.C. § 105…
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation 1. Whether , in this denial of benefits case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. , the cour…
22-6720 Angela Bakos v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied IFP benefits-suit civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa limitation-period notice notice-requirement procedural-requirement statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Respondent UNUM was required under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et. seq., to provide Petitioner BAKOS with a…
22-417 Gary Metzgar, et al. v. U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (1) accrued-benefits anti-cutback-rule early-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa pension-benefits pension-plan plan-interpretation postretirement-employment retirement-plan Whether ERISA's anti-cutback rule, 29 U.S.C. 1054(g), prohibits plan trustees and other plan sponsors from eliminating participants' early retirement …
22-226 Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether…
22-20 John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately hundreds of Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, who retired early …
21-1571 Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson Colorado 2022-06-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim In Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, 555 U.S. 285 (2009), this Court held that ERISA foreclosed a claim against a pl…
21-1521 New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response Waived arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability "Congress enacted the [Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980] MPPAA to protect the financial solvency of multiemployer pension plans." Bay…
21-1516 Swagelok Associates Welfare Benefits Plan v. Laura Patterson, et vir Ohio 2022-06-02 Denied civil-procedure equitable-relief erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction plan-participant reimbursement state-court-jurisdiction welfare-benefits Is a state law action brought by a Plan Participant for an injunction barring an ERISA welfare benefit plan from enforcing its subrogation/reimburseme…
21-1461 Nathan Vercellino v. Optum Insight, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived equitable-lien erisa medical-expenses minor minor-rights real-party-in-interest statute-of-limitations subrogation The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of Summary Judgment in favor of Optum Insight, Inc., United Healthcare Services, Inc., and Amer…
21-1376 Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA First Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure I. A policy insuring against accidental death, covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, excludes coverage for the insured's sui…
21-1310 Garnet Turner, et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied appropriate-equitable-relief benefit-claims civil-action concrete-injury eleventh-circuit equitable-relief erisa erisa-section-502(a)(3) fraud-claims fraud-in-equity statute-of-limitations In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately 13,000 Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, the Eleventh Circuit ad…
21-1287 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty georgia-law health-benefits healthcare-provider mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"), a Georgia provider, who obtained a writte…
21-1286 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty health-plan mandamus pre-emption preemption Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"), a Georgia provider, who obtained a writte…
21-1266 Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th…
21-6982 Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied IFP benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment. Whether a conflict of interest is acceptable when a defend…
21-1041 Michael J. P. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious benefit-eligibility erisa firestone-v-bruch judicial-review metro-life-v-glenn plan-administrator plan-administrator-discretion standard-of-review substantial-evidence 1. Whether the Supreme Court's dicta in Firestone Tire and Rubber Co v. Bruch , 489 U.S. 101, 109 S. Ct. 948, 103 L. Ed. 2d 80 (1989) and the Supreme …
21-6906 Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure de-novo-review employer-capacity erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty motion-to-dismiss plan-amendment plan-sponsor settlors-function two-hats-doctrine Question 1: Did the district court requiree the Defendants to adhere to the rules regarding a Motion12(b)(6) which prohibits claims asserted in a prio…
21-879 Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company Second Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption 1) Is a state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations, regardless of any discretion the Plan grants to the admin…
21-861 First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity fr…
21-761 OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters Fourth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) bars a plan fiduciary from causing the plan to engage in certain transactions with a "party in int…
21-724 New York University v. Dr. Alan Sacerdote, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) class-action class-shares employee-retirement-plans erisa fiduciary-duty mutual-funds prudence retirement-plans Whether the bare allegation that New York University ("NYU") offered retail-class shares of certain mutual funds rather than lower-cost institutional-…
21-699 Collette Campbell v. We Transport, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied beneficiary-designation cat-paw-doctrine death-benefits employer-duties erisa erisa-claims-procedures fiduciary-duty fraud insurance-carrier-duties insurance-claim 1. Whether the "Cat's Paw Doctrine" is applicable in this case when established claims procedures in an ERISA group insurance claim are not followed w…
21-602 Michigan Education Association Family Retired Staff Association, et al. v. Michigan Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived benefit-vesting civil-rights cnh-industrial-v-reese contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation employee-benefits erisa extrinsic-evidence plan-interpretation retiree-medical-plan vesting Whether a retiree medical plan that is ambiguous on its face, within the meaning enunciated in CNH Industrial v Reese, 138 S. Ct. 761 (2018), may be s…
21-554 Amber Boyer v. Schneider Electric Holdings, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived accidental-death benefits-due crime-exclusion erisa insurance-policy plan-administrator substantial-evidence 1. Whether the ERISA Plan Administrator's interpretation of "crime" to include speeding and improper passing was unreasonable when denying coverage un…
21-558 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, et al. v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights congressional-review-act due-process employee-retirement erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty payroll-deduction pension retirement state-mandated-savings state-regulation Considering California's infamous record of mismanagement, corruption, and the cavernous under-funding of its public employee retirement systems, is C…
21-495 Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") carefully spells out the process to terminate a distressed pension plan insured by the Pension B…
21-471 John Doe 1, et al. v. Express Scripts, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) benefit-pricing circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duties pegram-v-herdrich plan-management price-control pricing third-party-administrator 1. Does an administrator hired by an ERISA plan act as a fiduciary when it controls prices paid by the plan or its participants (as the Fourth, Fifth,…
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Before an employee may have been deemed to have waived the comprehensive rights, remedies and procedural protections prescribed in civil rights statut…
21-2 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2021-07-02 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat…
20-1659 50509 Marine LLC, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived chicago-title corporate-dissolution erisa erisa-interpretation federal-common-law stare-decisis state-corporate-law tenth-amendment Whether under Chicago Title & Tr. Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp., 302 U.S. 120 (1937) and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Con…
20-1655 W. A. Griffin v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Delta Air Lines Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"). Anti-assignment and anti-alienation prov…
20-1444 W. A. Griffin v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator provider-services waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Coca-Cola Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"). Anti-assignment and anti-alienation contained …
20-1255 Jeffrey Schweitzer, et al. v. Investment Committee of the Phillips 66 Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duty imprudent-investment investment-diversification participant-claims participant-rights pleadings single-stock-fund Is an ERISA fiduciary entitled to dismissal on the pleadings of a plan participant's claim that the fiduciary imprudently maintained an undiversified,…
20-1150 Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity 1. Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable lien by agreement claims against persons with which it has no agreement? 2. Can the undisclosed condi…
20-1087 Leonard Hartford Tunnell v. Public School Retirement System of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination erisa government-retirement-system government-retirement-systems retirement-equity-act spousal-rights Question not identified.
20-1012 Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision Is the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applicable when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment, o…
20-953 Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, expressly saves certain state laws from preemption. For those state laws that are saved…
20-866 Francesca Allen, et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Relisted (4) duty-of-loyalty duty-of-prudence employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-trading prudence-standard securities-law securities-laws stock-ownership 1. Whether, under Dudenhoeffer, ESOP fiduciaries are effectively immune from duty-of-prudence liability for the failure to publicly disclose inside in…
20-683 Dirk Wilke, Interim State Health Officer of North Dakota, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 GVR civil-rights eighth-circuit employee-benefits erisa erisa-preemption health-care-law pharmacy-benefit-managers plan-administration preemption state-regulation 1. Whether, contrary to decisions of this Court and every other court of appeals that has addressed the issue, ERISA preempts a State law simply becau…
20-638 Samuel Gonzales v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees burden-shifting civil-rights discretion employee-benefits erisa 1. Whether and to what extent district courts must consider ERISA's purpose "to protect *** the interests of participants in employee benefit plans an…
20-609 Gannett Company, Inc., et al. v. Jeffrey Quatrone Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options menu-of-investment-options prudence single-stock-fund Whether a plaintiff adequately pleads breach of the duties of prudence and diversification solely by alleging that fiduciaries permitted participants …
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that "two other courts" upheld the administrator's int…
20-289 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied corporate-disclosure disclosure employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-disclosure insider-information securities-law 1. Whether Dudenhoeffer's "more harm than good" standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of an a…
20-242 Norine Sylvia Cave v. Delta Dental of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Relisted (2) beneficiaries-rights benefits-denial breach-of-fiduciary-duties claim-adjudication erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duties fiduciary-responsibility medical-records medical-records-withholding plan-administration unauthorized-benefits 1. Whether a covered entity violates ERISA, by improperly denying beneficiaries' rights and further compounds such violations by approving unauthori…
20-188 Zhiheng Sheng v. Daniel Michael Snyder Georgia 2020-08-19 Denied antenuptial-agreement beneficiary-designation civil-procedure erisa erisa-waiver retirement-plan spousal-rights spousal-waiver state-law 1. Can a waiver by a spouse of her interest in a retirement plan covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1984 ("ERISA") in an antenu…
20-155 New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund v. Sun Capital Partners III, LP, et al First Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-conflict civil-rights culbertson-precedent due-process erisa mppaa partnership partnership-in-fact private-equity private-equity-funds 1. Whether the First Circuit's holding that the Sun Funds did not form a partnership-in-fact is inconsistent with this Court's precedent in Culbertson…
20-5305 Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from…
20-28 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of …
19-1462 Principal Life Insurance Company v. Frederick Rozo Eighth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived asset-management defined-contribution-plans employee-benefit-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary fiduciary-duty investment participant-control rate-of-return retirement-savings withdrawal withdrawal-rights Whether a service provider is a fiduciary under 29 U.S.C. § 1002(21)(A)(i) when it changes the rate of return on a product offered in an employee bene…
19-1401 April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative…
19-1353 AGI Consulting LLC, by Assaf Al-Assaf as Trustee/Owner/Plan Administrator of an Alleged Non-Integrated Defined Benefit Plan v. American National Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied 29-usc-1113 abandonment actual-knowledge breach-of-duty breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-court-interpretation constructive-knowledge discovery-rule discovery-standard erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty plain-meaning plain-meaning-of-statute statute-of-limitations There is no uniformity among the Circuit Courts as to the meaning or application of the ERISA statute of limitations for breach of fiduciary duty, 29 …
19-1336 The National Retirement Fund, et al. v. Metz Culinary Management, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actuarial-assumptions arbitration best-estimate employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa measurement-date multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether ERISA prohibits multiemployer pension plan actuaries from selecting actuarial assumptions to calculate withdrawal liability, after the Measure…
19-1239 Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows Ohio 2020-04-22 Denied Response Waived concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B), as decided by the Ohio Supreme Court and the Fift…
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting With respect to the surviving spouse class members whose retiree-spouses died on or after January 10, 2005 (after expiration of the 1998 contracts) ("…
19-1144 Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims I. Does The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA ") (29 U.S.C. §1144(a)), preempt state law claims of a labor union official agains…
19-7701 Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing (1) Will this court overturn, 9th circuit 's: case No. 18-56048 -11/12/2019 dkt No. 49 final Order 's: Denial of PROVEN Fraud on District Court and De…
19-1007 Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations Under ERISA, the National Basketball Association's retirement plan has a statutory obligation to continuously recalculate retirement benefits during a…
19-980 Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees beneficiary-rights civil-rights employee-benefits erisa fee-award health-plan judicial-review legal-success legal-victory standard-of-review The question presented is whether a beneficiary achieves "some success on the merits" for purposes of a fee award under ERISA Section 502(g)(1) when s…
19-884 Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Tenth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law I. UNUM (and other insurers) asserts ERISA insurers do not have a legal duty to draft unambiguous plans and policies. UNUM then argues that is has dis…
19-784 University of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jennifer Sweda, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) breach-of-duty civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options iqbal pleading-standard twombly twombly-standard 1. Whether Twombly's pleading standard governs breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA. 2. Whether a complaint states a plausible claim for breac…
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation If state statutes create an adjudicatory procedure that is contrary to the exclusive civil enforcement mechanism under the Employee Retirement Income …
19-721 W. A. Griffin v. Humana Employers Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. Georgia 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived assignment-of-benefit assignment-of-benefits consent-requirement erisa georgia-law georgia-statute health-insurance insurance-contracts insurance-law medical-assignment preemption provider-assignment provider-rights 1. Whether or not a medical provider who obtained a written assignment of benefit in accordance Georgia § 33-24-54 is required to obtain a consent or …
19-595 Eric O'Day, et al., Individually and on Behalf of the SunEdison, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan v. Ahmad Chatila, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2) asset-management context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-standard inside-information pleading-requirements prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded publicly-traded-assets securities-law Whether Dudenhoeffer's "context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations" can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p…
19-460 Alexander Y. Usenko, Derivatively on Behalf of the SunEdison Semiconductor Ltd. Retirement Savings Plan v. MEMC LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied asset-valuation context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-requirement pleading-requirements pleading-standard prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded-assets retirement-plan Whether Dudenhoeffer's "context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations" can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p…
19-444 Robert Hoch v. MBI Energy Services Eighth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived beneficiary beneficiary-rights cigna-corp-v-amara erisa erisa-beneficiary erisa-plan erisa-plan-administrator-reimbursement erisa-plan-document plan-administrator plan-document reimbursement reimbursement-provisions summary-plan-description Whether an ERISA Plan Administrator may enforce reimbursement provisions against an ERISA beneficiary that are contained only in a Summary Plan Descri…
19-382 John Teets v. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied civil-rights disgorgement due-process erisa fiduciary-duty harris-trust party-in-interest plan-assets tenth-circuit May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a nonfiduciary party in inter…
19-377 Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment 1. Whether the district and appellate courts claiming jurisdiction under ERISA over a private inter vivos trust creates conflict between Article VI of…
19-354 Colleen A. Easterday v. Estate of Michael J. Easterday Pennsylvania 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-designation breach-of-contract common-law-waiver contract-claim erisa erisa-preemption joint-survivor-annuity kennedy-v-plan-administrator plan-documents preemption 1. Can an Estate bring an action in State or Federal Court, and prevail, against a Joint Survivor Annuity beneficiary specifically named in ERISA plan…
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii 1. When, if ever, can a magistrate judge assigned to handle nondispositive matters in a Federal lawsuit intentionally violate Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee…
19-242 Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job du…
19-196 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver 1. Whether a federal court seeking to identify the content of state law pursuant to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), may choose the …
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit 1. After Third Circuit had affirmed an Order in favor of an ERISA plan by recharacterizing it as a monetizing of a lien rather than a personal money j…
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Joseph Reinwands ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) disability Pension Case raises a pressing concern of National importance: Whether and…
19-170 The E Company, et al. v. Trustees of the Suburban Teamsters of Northern Illinois Pension Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied administrative-notice control-group due-process erisa mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover mullane-v-central-hanover-bank notice pension-fund slotky-standard withdrawal-liability The sponsor of a multiemployer pension fund issued a notice of withdrawal liability to contributing employers prior to a suit to collect the claim und…
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
18A1359 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance Question not identified.
18A1327 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion disability-benefits erisa insurance-plan own-occupation procedural-history Question not identified.
18A1287 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete common-law-agency darden-factors employee-status erisa independent-contractor standard-of-review Question not identified.
18A1247 The Depot, Inc, et al. v. Caring for Montanans, Inc., fka Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Presumed Complete employee-benefits erisa federal-preemption health-benefit-plan insurance-regulation ninth-circuit Question not identified.
18A1221 The E Company, et al. v. Trustees of Suburban Teamsters of Northern Illinois Pension Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete administrative-proceedings due-process erisa mullane-standard notice-requirements withdrawal-liability Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the due process notice standards established in Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 399 U.…
18-1364 Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test Whether (1) the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the "primary purpose" test rather than the "surrounding circumstances" test …
18-1341 Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla…
18-8813 Jean Bultman v. Cigna Group Insurance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-duty civil-procedure employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty plan-administration prudent-investor-rule retirement-plans standing statute-of-limitations Did the ERISA Plan Fiduciaries Breach their Duty to Provide Under the Six Year Statue of Limitations?
18-1279 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2019-04-08 Denied 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches…
18-1265 September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations?
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review This petition presents one legal issue in two parts that have divided the courts of appeals regarding ERISA statute and regulations. Congress intended…
18-1165 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation Whether Fifth Third's "more harm than good" pleading standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of…
18-8318 Helen Thomasina Gardner v. Verizon Communications Inc. Second Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach civil-procedure defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-section-502 fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty health-insurance life-insurance participant plan-participant relief standing statutory-interpretation Do sections 502 (a)(2) of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974(ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(2), and 502(a)(3), 29 U.S.C. 1132(a)(3) authorize a p…
18-8175 Wessley J. Gunchick v. Bank of America, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure contract-law due-process employment-contract employment-dispute erisa erisa-standards legal-precedent standing Did Respondent Bank Of America present any court case that would have allowed for a full due process to be fullfilled with the case at hand of Wessley…
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1113(2), which runs from "the ea…
18-1033 W. A. Griffin v. United Healthcare of Georgia, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-appeals anti-assignment co-fiduciary-liability document-request erisa erisa-co-fiduciary-liability erisa-document-production-requests ERISA-governed-plan erisa-welfare-plan-administration fiduciary-duty georgia-mandatory-assignment-of-benefits-statute plan-administrator provider-anti-assignment provider-anti-assignment-clauses retroactive-assignment statute-of-limitations-for-erisa-penalties statutory-penalties Whether or not a plan administrator and/or plan fiduciary of an ERISA governed welfare benefit plan waived the rights to assert provider anti-assignme…
18-993 Young Adult Institute, Inc., dba YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities, et al. v. Joel M. Levy, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement erisa erisa-regulation executive-compensation federal-common-law non-profit non-profit-corporations non-profit-governance public-policy retirement-benefits Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because it refused to decide YAI's public-policy argument that arises under federal common law…
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation A fiduciary of an ERISA plan is personally liable for "losses to the plan resulting from" a breach of fiduciary duty. 29 U.S.C. § 1109(a). Fiduciarie…
18-703 University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust Whether an agreement to arbitrate "all claims" that an ERISA plan participant "may have" against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du…
18-6756 John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt debt-imprisonment disgorgement due-process erisa erisa-case erisa-enforcement garnishment imprisonment judicial-review labor-secretary-powers preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly decided that parts of a $38 million judgment for "disgorgement" entered in 2015 against the Pet…
18-613 W. A. Griffin v. Aetna Health Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived assignee-rights civil-procedure document-request erisa erisa-benefits erisa-statutory-penalty georgia-law georgia-supreme-court o.c.g.a.-9-3-22 o.c.g.a.-9-3-28 plan-administrator retroactive-assignment standing state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-penalty Whether or not the District court borrowed the appropriate state law for Erisa statutory penalty by applying a one year statue of limitations under O.…
18-578 William L. Pender, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied appropriate-relief benefit-plan civil-procedure divided-bench employee-benefits equitable-relief equity-courts erisa judicial-remedy pension-law solicitor-general statutory-interpretation Whether the word "appropriate" in ERISA § 502(a)(3) authorizes ERISA courts to decline to award an established equitable remedy based on consideration…
18-6543 John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 29-usc-1132 appropriate-relief benefit-plans defined-benefit defined-benefit-plan erisa erisa-29-usc-1132 erisa-standing fiduciary-duty monetary-relief plan-surplus secretary-of-labor standing statutory-interpretation surplus-assets trust Does the Secretary of Labor have standing to sue for "losses" to the surplus of an ERISA defined benefit welfare plan - i.e., a theoretical injury to …
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Fletcher v. Honeywell International Inc. , 892 F.3d 217 (6th Cir. 2018) holds that a "CBA's general durational clause applies to [retiree] healthcareb…
18-232 W. A. Griffin v. Teamcare, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied assignment assignment-of-rights benefit-assignment circuit-split erisa medical-provider medical-providers participant-rights statutory-penalties welfare-benefit-plan welfare-benefits written-assignment-of-benefits 1. Whether or not ERISA authorizes a participant or member of a welfare benefit plan to assign his or her rights to statutory penalties to a medical p…
18-134 Jennifer Perkins v. US Airways, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) benefits-denial current-employment-status erisa health-benefits medicare-as-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer plan-documents summary-judgment unreasonable-denial-of-benefits Petitioner has been continuously employed as a flight attendant with Respondent US Airways, Inc. (US Air), a member of the flight attendants' union, a…