Review Of Circuit Decision Allowing Reformation Of Retirement Plan Not Warranted

Mealey's (September 18, 2020, 10:16 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals did not create a circuit conflict in ruling that a lower court had the authority to reform an ERISA-governed retirement plan and then enforce that newly reformed plan toward money damages for class action plaintiffs, the plan participants argue in a Sept. 16 response in opposition to a petition for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and others (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy D. Laurent, et al., No. 20-28, U.S. Sup.)....