( January 9, 2026, 11:10 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Jan. 8 text-only docket entry, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a one-paragraph dismissal motion the parties filed the previous day regarding a certiorari petition for which the U.S. government filed an amicus curiae brief urging the high court to grant; the petition concerned an issue the high court has passed on several times and asked whether “burden-shifting applies to the element of causation under” part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act....