pension-benefits
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |