And Then There Was One: SCOTUS on Path to Benefits-Free Term

The U.S. Supreme Court is wrapping up the first term in six years in which it didn’t hear an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case. The odds that trend continues next term are increasing.

ERISA, the federal law that regulates how employers offer employee benefits to their workers, is a frequent guest of the Supreme Court. The justices have taken up and decided 129 employee benefits cases since the year ERISA was enacted, making the federal statute one of the most litigated issues before the high court.

“The lack of ERISA cases on the docket this term was anomalous,” Brian ...