This week’s notable decision is the Second Circuit’s short per curiam opinion in Jander v. Ret. Plans Comm. of IBM, No. 17-3518, __F.3d__, 2020 WL 3412115 (2d Cir. June 22, 2020), a case where Plaintiffs, who are participants in the…

When the United States Supreme Court decided CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421 (2011), it educated us all by citing to doctrines of equity from cases and horn books written 200 years ago. This week, the Second Circuit’s decision…

No harm, no foul, and no standing. That’s the essence of this week’s notable decision in Thole v. U. S. Bank N.A., No. 17-1712, __S.Ct.__, 2020 WL 2814294 (U.S. June 1, 2020), which the Supreme Court handed down on Monday.…

Retirement plan participants received a partial victory from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in one of several actions brought against large universities for the alleged mismanagement of their section 403(b) retirement-savings plans. In Davis v. Washington Univ. in St.…