pension-benefits

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25-482 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law compensation-benefits disability-claims pension-benefits va-regulations veterans-benefits Whether the VA must process a disability claim as a claim for both pension and compensation if the veteran has a possible entitlement to both benefits…
25A149 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete administrative-law compensation-benefits pension-benefits statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-benefits 1. This case concerns the interpretation of regulations governing veterans' benefits. And in particular, it concerns the construction of an important …
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…
22-786 Michael Faris v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof comparability federal-employees leave-of-absence pension-benefits reframing-contentions uniformed-services userra 1. Are federal employees considered a "person " for the purposes of USERRA and thereby entitled to the Rights and Benefits guaranteed to "any person "…
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 …
22-206 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. New York 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute The word "substantial" is not found in the governing statute, CPLR 5601 (a), or the New York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals as…
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…
20-1257 Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii It is well understood that plaintiffs can and should, for strategic reasons, bring claims under every theory of liability that may apply to a defendan…
18-1332 Mario Alberto Recinos v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen's Retirement System New Jersey 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-decision break-in-service civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing pension pension-benefits pension-rights police-and-fireman-retirement-system retirement-benefits retirement-system undersheriff-position 1) Should certiorari be granted as an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court exists as the petitioner Mario Alberto Re…
18-163 James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc…