(January 7, 2019, 9:02 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appeal holding that a back pay award in an age-based pension rate dispute was mandatory legal remedy directly conflicts with three pension cases already decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Baltimore County, Md., argues in a petition for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 13 (Baltimore County, Maryland v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, No. 18-781, U.S. Sup.)....