(September 27, 2016, 3:59 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny Saint Peter’s Healthcare System’s (SPHS) petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of a circuit court decision affirming that its pension plan is not a “church plan” exempt from the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because SPHS is not a church but a nonprofit health care entity, counsel for a plan participant say in a brief in opposition filed with the high court on Sept. 16 (Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, et al. v. Laurence Kaplan, No. 16-86, U.S. Sup.; 2016 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3400)....