Metzgar v. U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund
Petition for certiorari denied on March 6, 2023
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.
| Date | Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding) |
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| Aug 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. |
| Aug 25 2022 | Application (22A182) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until October 28, 2022. |
| Oct 28 2022 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 2, 2022) |
| Nov 07 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 2, 2022 to January 31, 2023, submitted to The Clerk. |
| Nov 08 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 31, 2023. |
| Nov 29 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Pension Rights Center filed. |
| Jan 27 2023 | Brief of respondents U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund, et al. in opposition filed. |
| Feb 10 2023 | Reply of petitioners Gary Metzgar, et al. filed. |
| Feb 15 2023 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/3/2023. |
| Mar 06 2023 | Petition DENIED. |
