pension-plan

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A601 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Application erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act requires withdrawal liability credits from a partial withdrawal to be applied as a direct reduct…
25A367 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund Second Circuit 2025-09-29 Application erisa mass-withdrawal multiemployer-plan pension-plan special-financial-assistance zone-status Whether a multiemployer pension plan that has terminated by mass withdrawal remains eligible for Special Financial Assistance under the American Rescu…
24-1149 T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation Whether a pension plan designed for three generations of a family is a multiple employer plan under ERISA and subject to its coverage provisions
22-742 United Mine Workers of America 1974 Pension Plan, et al. v. Energy West Mining Company District of Columbia 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actuarial-assumptions actuarial-determination burden-of-proof concrete-pipe discount-rate multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan pension-plan reasonable-expectations standard-practice withdrawal-liability Whether the MPPAA overrides standard actuarial practice
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…
21-495 Dennis Black, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process erisa judicial-oversight pbgc pension-plan pension-termination statutory-interpretation Does ERISA permit the termination of a distressed pension plan through an agreement between PBGC and the plan administrator?
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u…
18-1279 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2019-04-08 Denied 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under §1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches …
18-781 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adea-enforcement age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent circuit-court-split discretionary-authority judicial-discretion pension-plan pension-plans retroactive-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that a retroactive award of monetary relief is mandatory under the ADEA in this pension case