( January 9, 2026, 10:01 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Almost exactly six months after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) first filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals supporting a retirement plan against plan participants’ efforts to revive their putative class action challenging a common use of forfeited nonvested matching retirement contributions, the agency on Jan. 8 did the same in one of the three similar appeals also pending in the Ninth Circuit....