Justices agree that actuaries can use up-to-date assumptions in assessing costs of leaving a multi-employer pension plan

Yesterday’s decision in M&K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund was pretty much exactly what you would have expected given the argument: a brisk rejection of the idea that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 obligates actuaries to use out-of-date assumptions when they work […]

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“Shadow docket” reform?

A programming note: We are observing Memorial Day on Monday, so you will next receive the SCOTUStoday newsletter on Tuesday. At the Court On Thursday, the Supreme Court released its decisions in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises and M&K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension […]

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Court sidesteps death-row IQ dispute

The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a ruling by a federal appeals court in favor of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. In a one-sentence, unsigned order, the court dismissed Alabama’s petition for review in Hamm v. Smith […]

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More opinions on the way

Love to start your day with a live blog? Then we’ve got some good news. We’re live blogging this morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT as we await one or more opinions in argued cases. At the Court After the possible announcement of opinions this morning, the justices will meet […]

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Daubert dust-up and AEDPA angst

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Since our last post, the Supreme Court has continued its one-in, one-out approach to the relist rolls. Of the returning relisted cases, the justices granted review […]

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Justice Jackson criticizes the court

We realized Ask Amy was making our Friday newsletters rather long, so we’ll now run this on Wednesdays in place of a Closer Look. And please join us today at noon EDT on LinkedIn Live for Amy’s discussion with Briefly’s Adam Stofsky about this term’s highest-profile cases. Register here. At […]

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