Northwestern, Employees Continue SCOTUS Retirement Plan Fight

Northwestern University and a proposed class of employees continue to spar over whether the U.S. Supreme Court should resolve their retirement plan dispute after the acting U.S. solicitor general recommended that the case be heard.

The acting solicitor “hypes a split” among the federal appeals courts “where there is none,” Northwestern said in a supplemental brief urging the justices to skip the case. Rather, the circuits that have considered university retirement plan management “applied the same legal standards and simply reached different results on different complaints,” according to the school.

The employees disagreed in their own supplemental brief, filed ...