employee-benefits
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1142 | Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | Response Waived | claims-administration disclosure-requirements employee-benefits ERISA fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation | Whether a contract that governs the administration of benefit claims is a "contract … under which the plan is established or operated" within the mean… |
| 25-1121 | Luxottica U.S. Holdings Corp., et al. v. Janet Duke | Second Circuit | 2026-03-26 | Pending | arbitration-agreements employee-benefits ERISA Federal-Arbitration-Act public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation | The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) protects the right to "traditional individualized arbitration." Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. 497, 509 (2018… | |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 23-12 | John Kowal v. Ferndale Area School District, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | age-discrimination but-for-causation employee-benefits equal-cost-or-equal-benefit equal-protection medicare-eligibility older-workers-benefit-protection-act takings-clause | The U.S. Supreme Court, in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, (2013) and Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., (2009), inter … | |
| 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… |
| 22-690 | Acquanitta L. Harris-Patterson v. Armco Steel, aka AK Steel Corporation, et al. | Missouri | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | benefits-book benefits-package benefits-payments benefits-policy benefits-termination compensation-dispute death-benefits employee-benefits interest-accrued misrepresentation social-security wage-deduction | There are a number of tentative questions presented by the Petitioner as following: 1. What cancel checks have been paid? And if so who were they pai… |
| 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… | |
| 21-1019 | The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation | Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to … |
| 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… | |
| 21-602 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 19-1334 | Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this … | |
| 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… |
| 19-980 | 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… |
| 19-784 | 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… |
| 19-77 | Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims | The familiar express preemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") outlaws any state laws that "relate to" an … |
| 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. | |
| 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? |
| 18-578 | 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… |