Mealey's (June 7, 2019, 9:52 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 5 affirmed a district court’s ruling that a pension plan administrator did not abuse its discretion in terminating a plan participant’s pension benefits because the plan administrator was not “shackled” to its original interpretation of the plan (Robert Meakin v. California Field Ironworkers Pension Trust et al., No. 18-15216, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 16941)....