vesting

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 may be shown by extrinsic evidence to provide for vesting of post-retirement benefits
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting Did the Sixth Circuit misapply M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett and related cases to find that Group 2 surviving spouses have no right to healthcare b…
19-1181 Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif…
19-341 Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting Whether the Eighth Circuit conflicts with this Court's holding that retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by 'explicit terms', 'implied terms', …