Mealey's (February 17, 2021, 1:55 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The board of trustees of a pension plan where eligibility for disability retirement benefits was amended in 2012 must consider in the first instance the application of the plan’s grandfather clause in the case of a plan participant who sought such benefits in 2013, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 10 in a memorandum affirming in part and vacating in part a trial court’s order remanding to the plan administrator and dismissing for lack of jurisdiction the trustees’ appeal of the denial of their summary judgment motion....