February 28, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to breathe new life into a challenge to a California program that steers some of workers' earnings into retirement accounts, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling that said the program wasn't preempted by federal benefits law.
February 07, 2022
An anti-tax group urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject arguments from California officials that the state's auto-retirement program was outside the purview of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, warning the high court that its input was crucial before other states followed suit.
January 21, 2022
California's state-run retirement program on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an anti-tax group's challenge, arguing that the Ninth Circuit correctly found that the program wasn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because it's not an "employee benefit plan" under ERISA.
January 03, 2022
Benefits attorneys will be waiting to see if the U.S. Supreme Court revives a suit against Northwestern University, and wondering whether the high court will weigh in on cases involving California's state-run retirement program and pharmacy benefit managers' latitude in setting drug prices. Here, Law360 previews six ERISA cases, at the high court and below, to watch in the coming year.
November 03, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court asked a California state official to respond to an anti-tax group's petition for high court review of a Ninth Circuit ruling, which found the state's auto-retirement program was not preempted by federal law.