(March 1, 2018, 10:47 AM EST) -- SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The United States on Feb. 26 exercised its statutory right and filed a memo in a pension plan dispute defending the constitutionality of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s “church plan” exemption as a permissible religious accommodation under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Lorraine Cappello, et al. v. Franciscan Alliance, Inc., et al., No. 16-290, N.D. Ind.)....