retirement-plan

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
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…
21-5437 Jean Crump v. Social Security Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisons medication-access prisoner-retirement prisoner-rights retirement-funds retirement-plan room-and-board social-security 1. Is the Social Security Administration employee funded retirement, a retirement plan? 2. Should you advise the pubic that the government do not hon…
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…
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…
19-460 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…
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 …