| 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 |
Whether a VA regulation requiring the agency to award the greater benefit to veterans unless they specifically elect the lesser benefit creates a mand… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied deference to PBGC's interpretations of ambiguous ERISA provisions and ignored substantial harm to the 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 |
Are federal employees considered a 'person' for the purposes of USERRA? |
| 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 prohibits plan trustees from eliminating participants' early retirement benefits through a reinterpretation of the p… |
| 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 |
Whether the word 'substantial' in the governing statute CPLR 5601(a) and the New York State Constitution provision for appeals as of right on constitu… |
| 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 |
Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s… |
| 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 |
Should certiorari be granted as an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court exists as the petitioner Mario Alberto Recin… |
| 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… |