Feds Want Teamsters’ Challenge to Pension Law Axed

A lawsuit by three United Parcel Service Inc. retirees challenging a federal law allowing pension benefit cuts faces its first hurdle after the government urged a federal court to dismiss it.

The retirees haven’t sufficiently alleged that the Treasury Department’s implementation of the law is a governmental taking of their private property under the Fifth Amendment, the government said in its Nov. 1 motion filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The retirees filed the first challenge to the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act, also known as the Kline-Miller Act, earlier this year. The 2014 law allows a multiemployer ...