Metzgar v. U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund

Petition for certiorari denied on March 6, 2023

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
22-417	2nd Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2022

Issue: Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974"s anti-cutback rule, 29 U.S.C. 1054(g), prohibits plan trustees and other plan sponsors from eliminating participants" early retirement benefits through a reinterpretation of the plan to disallow previously permitted postretirement employment, thus accomplishing through a plan interpretation what they could not do through the plan"s formal amendment process.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
08/18/2022	Application (22A182) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 31, 2022 to October 28, 2022, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.
08/25/2022	Application (22A182) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until October 28, 2022.
10/28/2022	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 2, 2022)
11/07/2022	Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 2, 2022 to January 31, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
11/08/2022	Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 31, 2023.
11/29/2022	Brief amicus curiae of Pension Rights Center filed.
01/27/2023	Brief of respondents U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund, et al. in opposition filed.
02/10/2023	Reply of petitioners Gary Metzgar, et al. filed.
02/15/2023	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/3/2023.
03/06/2023	Petition DENIED.